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 they’ll 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 Labor’s 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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There’s something fowl about this whole idea.
Sounds like you are just egging them on.
eggzactly
PETA would say there’s something foul about fowl.
the yolk is on you, yuck yuck
You’re too chicken to try it.
You seem scrambled
I think fried chicken is one of the four food groups.
Hmmm. And just what happens after those six months are up???
Egg ‘whites’ be racist!
The chicks in California love it
I think this is a great clucking idea.
Eggnog what your chicken can do for you but what you can do for your chicken (to much?).
You’ll be seeing rent a pig or rent a cow eventually. Why do these clowns complicate things? I get it. Eggs in CA is $2.99/dozen.
Vegetarians prefer egg-plants
[And just what happens after those six months are up???]
Chicken dinner.
$400 for two hens and a coop? Only city fools would pay that!
Unless they are from brown eggs. Brown is the new black.
Yep, only a fool would pay that much. Look at these prices:
http://www.efowl.com/Meat_Breeds_s/75.htm
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