High egg prices are leading to a surge in demand for baby chicks in Phoenix, Arizona. Gordon Grantham, owner of Gordon's Feed, reports an unprecedented influx of calls for chicks, forcing him to increase his weekly order from 500 to 700. Grantham attributes the trend to customers seeking to reduce their reliance on store-bought eggs and achieve financial savings by raising their own chickens.
Inside Gordon's Feed on Broadway in Phoenix, the phone rings again.“We do not have any baby chicks right this moment,' owner Gordon Grantham tells the caller on the other line. It's not the first time he's had this call.“Demand is definitely through the roof,' Grantham said. 'My phone has not stopped ringing for seven days, asking for baby chicks.”He's completely out of stock, even upping his average order of 500 chicks a week to 700 to meet the demand.
Grantham says they start laying eggs after four to six months, and it costs $20 a month to feed a dozen of them. Once they start laying eggs, he says this is when people will start to see big savings.“If you get a good egg-production chicken, you’re looking at about 300 eggs a year,' Grantham said.Meaning in a year’s worth of production, including start-up costs, your cost per dozen eggs could be just over $1. That's well below the average price at stores now, which is around $4.
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