Can't find and/or afford eggs at your local supermarket?
Don't worry, the market always finds a way!
Now, you can rent chickens that will just lay eggs in your backyard.
BEHOLD:
Things are bad enough on the egg-front that Rent the Chicken is having trouble keeping up with demand.
Rent the Chicken co-founder Jenn Tompkins told ABC News that their phone is 'ringing off the hook' as egg prices go up.
'Our online inquiries are filling up very quickly as well,' Tompkins said. 'We will run out of hens available for rent. If anyone is interested, please make sure to put their reservation in sooner than later.'
For $500 every 6 months, you get two egg-laying hens, a portable chicken coop, up to 200 pounds of feed, a food and water dish, and a book on taking care of chickens.
That works out to about $21 per dozen by my calculations, which seems a little high, but it would be a good way to see if you want to own chickens in the long run.
'We are not coming against the high price of eggs,' she explained to USA Today. 'We are solving a problem of food insecurity; of not having eggs on the shelf. People can have eggs in their backyard.'
Rent the Chicken will also sell you the whole set up at the end of the rental period with their adoption option.
Alternatively, you can get to know someone who has chickens and is selling their excess.
There are about 10 people at my church doing this, and I've never had a shortage of eggs over the last four years or had my cost increase.
Shoutout to Not the Bee user @electdrstrangelove for the heads up about this story.
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