Last year, Finley began a chicken breeding consulting business, The Royal Chicken Coop, to help newcomers navigate the process. The sale of eggs has been a mouth business for Finley; Its customers include local bakeries, living rooms, neighbors and others in a growing waiting list.
Christina Yi, 21, a student at Harvard University, has built his own business as an intermediary. When the parents of older adults visit every two or less weeks, they bring fresh eggs of their chicken coop in the backyard to about 45 minutes, in Haverhill. She sells some of them to her closest friends.
“What you get is sold in the first two emails I receive,” said Yi. “Demand is so crazy.”
Fresh eggs have become such a hot product, they are also good gifts.
“One of my friends has just had his birthday, and instead of giving me a gift, I just gave him two dozen eggs for him to cook for his birthday party,” he said. “He loved it.”
However, the benefit of fresh eggs comes with an important job.
Due to the concerns of the aviar flu, Joshua Cooey of Tallahassee, Florida, has ensured that their chickens are well insured to avoid the contact of the external birds. The demand for eggs of its 30 chickens has increased considerably, it estimates that it has a waiting list, but it has not diverted from its rate: $ 5 for a dozen.
“My food costs have not increased,” said Cooey, 27, who works in finance. “I am selling eggs to pay the chickens. I am not trying to make a living with this. Therefore, it allows me to reach the balance point, but also give people a higher quality product than they would buy in the store. And there is something to say about how that makes you feel personally. “
For Christin New, whose multigenerational family moved from Redwood City, California, to a house of 2 acres in the nearby mountains of Santa Cruz in 2022, its seven chickens provide the sensation of family pets and at the same time produce fresh eggs. Like Cooey, she is not selling eggs to get profits.
“I worry about pets and animals, so I can raise chickens and can lead a good life, and can provide eggs that promote a good diet, then it is great,” said New, 39, a scientist of clinical research.
Finley chickens in Atlanta have also become part of their family, he said. He called them after influential black women such as Oprah Winfrey, Kamala Harris, Maya Angelou and Texas Jasmine Crockett representative. His university daughters called One Beyoncé.
“I love you,” he said. “They are spoiled. The food with fruits, berries, vegetables, things of my own scratch that is cut and dries. “
But, while Finley has created a small business, most New’s eggs are for your home and neighbors. “If we have an excess, we will sell the neighbors, but probably with losses. We are happy to provide fresh eggs, “said New.” They say: ‘If I am going to pay $ 5, $ 6, $ 7 for dozen, I prefer to buy them from the chickens with which I spend at home and I can see that they live a good life outside’ “.
With a similar spirit, Amir Johnson, who raises 10 chickens in Atlanta, said it feels “good to be able to give eggs already needed.”
The 32 -year -old began to raise his chickens last year with the purpose of donating homeless people through his non -profit organization, Need Feed. His group offers meals for detached once a month in Atlanta and their surroundings.
Cultivate organic vegetables and aspires to feed others “of my own food sources,” he said. “Then, I have chickens to see how that would go.”
Johnson eventually hopes to have enough land so that the people served “will not have to go to the supermarket to obtain food,” he said. “I want to do everything there.”
