Posted on 07/21/2015 8:07:37 PM PDT by Steelfish
Rent-A-Chicken Scheme Set To Crack Soaring US Egg Price Problem Pennsylvania couple offers solution to cost of eggs which has increased by 85% in a month after a bird flu outbreak Jenn and Phil Tompkins see their business as a way to change how people think about food. 21 July 2015 A Pennsylvania couple has come up with a solution to soaring US egg prices: rental chickens.
RentTheChicken.com is the brainchild of Jenn and Phil Tompkins, of Freeport, Pennsylvania, north-east of Pittsburgh. More than just a cost-beater, they see their business as a way to change how people think about food.
It changes the mindset of people when they know where food comes from, said Jenn Tompkins, 38. Pretty soon theyll have tomato plants and be turning the chicken manure into compost.
Since starting their home-based business in the summer of 2013, they have rented chickens, either directly or through affiliates, to about 200 customers in 12 US states, as well as Ontario and Prince Edward Island in Canada.
Interest has been spurred by an 85% surge in egg prices in June after an outbreak of bird flu led to millions of laying hens being culled nationally, the Department of Labors data shows.
For about $400, depending on location, the service provides two laying hens for the four to six warm months of the year, plus a chicken coop and a guidebook.
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“For about $400, depending on location, the service provides two chickens...”
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Why stop at 2??? Get 535, you’ll have your own Congress.
A really good chicken will lay 1 egg per day. Unless the weather changes, they molt, they get scared, an airplane flies over, a dog barks too close...
Those are some high priced eggs!
I have thousands of dollars in my chicken coop!!! Yea!
I think the country would be better if Congress was replaced by 535 chickens. Getting back to the subject, well as the saying goes, “see a need, fill a need.”
The Chickens come home to roost!!!
Don’t we already have 545 CHICKEN-SH!TS in Congress as it is?
sorry - meant 535...
my best advice for folks wanting to get into chickens is contact local ag extension agent, buy laying hens on Craig's list, and matching chicks online (McMurray, etc). Save your cashish!
P. T. Barnum and fools.
I ordered 100+ chicks for an FFA project one year. Bought them for pennies and housed them in an old garage. The feed back then was too expensive so can only imagine the cost today - ok, looked it up and it’s $45 for 10 lbs of organic feed which will be gobbled up in no time. Couldn’t have been happier to see those nasty creatures go to the end of year bbq. Went back to cattle the next year. Much easier and profitable. No thanks, I’ll continue to get my eggs at the grocery store.
This is an “anchor fallacy”. While the % increase is big the base (or anchor) for the increase is small. Sorta like 100 X nothing is still nothing. In this case eggs are about $1.50/doz so now the could be as high as almost $2.00. But a headline staing eggs increase $0.50/doz would not make a splash.
It is typical liberal scare tactics. Next up poor neighbors nedd sustainable and affordable eggs.
I’m launching an App which will send a chicken over to your house in a self-driving Prius. Upon arrival, the chicken will lay an egg on your kitchen counter, kill, pluck, gut and fry itself; before its skeletal remains return in the Prius to the recycling center, which then sends you carbon credits via email.
I'm trying to figure out how to get bacon from a rental pig. This could go big.
Will the chicken produce Cadbury Eggs?
We get our eggs from “The Egg Lady”, $2.00/dozen delivered to our door every Tuesday. She’s a local school teacher, who keeps chickens and ducks. She knows I like to bake with duck eggs, so she occasionally delivers a few no extra charge. :)
If not Cadbury, how about Faberge?
What sort of Turkey would pay hu dreds of dollars to rent a chicken.
“Will the chicken produce Cadbury Eggs?”
No silly! Those come from the Great Plains Jackalope.
Here’s how the pros do it.
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Hens start laying at around six months old. They lay one egg per day. By manipulating the light they receive the poultry farms are able to keep them on eight day weeks, laying eight eggs per week. They start out laying small eggs. As they grow older, they lay medium, then large, and so forth. After a year of egg production they are sold to food processors who turn them into soup and stew and such.
Maybe that’s the idea. (Scammin the rubes)
I have a cousin who has some acreage and decided to have chickens. They’ve had them about a year now and he says he is getting rid of them. They wind up with too many eggs so give them away and the feed is expensive. He says it’s cheaper and less trouble to buy them at the store.
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