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From: Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Need eggs? Rent a chicken.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:36:44 +1100
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:27:44 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
(ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:46:00 +0000, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 2/16/2025 1:00 AM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 4:19:33 +0000, Ed P wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A local farmers is offering chicken rentals. You get two chickens, ready
>>>>>> to lay for 6 months.  The cost is $500.  They say you can expect about a
>>>>>> dozen a week.
>>>>>>
>>>>> $500 for two chickens???  Those must be prize laying hens.
>>>>> Will this fee include food and some sort of shelter for
>>>>> these chickens??
>>
>>
>> Here's what your $500 rental package gets you:
>>
>> 2025 Standard Rental Package - $495
>> Rentals available: April - October or May - November
>> Delivery, setup, and pick-up of the contents
>> 2 Rent The Chicken Egg-Laying Hens
>> 8-14 eggs per week
>> 1 Standard Chicken Coop that can be easily moved
>> 1 Custom Rent The Chicken Food dish
>> 1 Water dish
>> 100 pounds of Chicken Feed (optional non-gmo feed available for $105
>> more)
>> Quick guide for taking care of your Rent The Chickens
>> A copy of "Fresh Eggs Daily" by Lisa Steele
>>
>> https://www.rentthechicken.com/p/detroit-ann-arbor-and-surrounding-areas.html
>>
>>
>Well, at least you'd be getting something besides two
>hens, but still seems awfully steep to me.
>
>My yard is not fenced so no telling where those hens
>would wander to plus the danger of dogs or owls killing
>those birds.  Kroger supplies my egg needs.

There's a coop included.

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Bruce
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