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Kind: captions Language: en hopefully you have done your research hopefully you know what you’re in for if you don’t know what you’re in for my friend will eat your chickens [Music] hey everyone i’m brad i’m the head of continental hustle i’m joined tonight by carolyn dohak one of our uh longest serving and most entertaining writers who does a lot of work for the daily and this week she’s got a sunday story for us um welcome to the show caroline thanks for having me brad you bet so um we’ve written about people who have are baking their own bread and we’ve written about people who are doing a lot more gardening and lots of do-it-yourself trends and this week caroline has a story about chicken rearing and i wonder caroline you’re um in the missouri area where did you find the chicken story for us sure so um i’m a have been a chicken wrangler in the past not at the moment but i was just scrolling facebook one day and a friend who lives out of town had posted that anyone who had panic bought chickens and found them overwhelming was welcome to donate them to her however people needed to know that she already had a full flock of laying hens and any chickens that they donated she was going to slaughter and eat them so that’s how you stumble upon the story you realize this is that there’s panic buying happening yeah i hadn’t heard of that and um i mean urban hens have been popular for a while and and so i looked into it and yeah this has been a thing turns out it is a thing now and there’s a there’s a whole economy around it and so what is the um what is the business of raising chickens look like both for the consumer and for the businesses as much as you know at this point if you are in the business of selling baby chicks or chicken products this is a great time for you you are seeing compared with last year your sales have increased hundreds of percentages it’s awesome if you are someone who has panic purchased chickens hopefully you have done your research hopefully you know what you’re in for if you don’t know what you’re in for my friend will eat your chickens um but the thing is you’re not going to break even on your investment and you’re not going to have a steady stream of eggs not for a while because your chicks will have to mature but also they go through awkward molting phases and they don’t lay in the winter but you do get these amazing eggs like fresh laid eggs and you have these chickens running around your backyard so is it worth the hassle i mean obviously you’re gonna explore this a little bit in the story but it doesn’t make a lot of money for you but you get these nice eggs i mean personally i think so um the eggs are far superior to what you get at the store the yolks are orange um they just they just stand up in in the pan um there’s some research on the omega whatever levels that shows that they’re more nutritious um the chickens are fun you know you look out your window and you see these little triangles and they’re moving around and they have personalities and um they’re very and that’s really fun and uh your neighbors will like you a lot more i have found i was concerned when i first got into it that they would not but they like it and if you share with them you become very popular exactly share some eggs you’ve had some uh it sounds like some entertaining battles in your yard with chickens tell us about like your favorite story about one of your chickens and what some of the names are oh sure so um my husband is an early 90s hip hop aficionado and so a lot of our chickens have hip hop or rnb inspired names and we got our first batch um we got six of them and little kim died of unnatural causes we’re not sure what um lp was killed by a raccoon which was very messy so we got two new ones to replace them um mary j blige and pharrell and it was the girl who was on the like just the very lowest point in the pecking order she was very insecure and she started pecking the new girls like in the neck and she actually packed a hole in mary j blige’s neck and the thing is you don’t you don’t want that because if they get a taste for one another’s flesh they will cannibalize it’s very gross so your choices there are you can clip their beaks which i’m not into you can kill the chicken which i’m not into or you can get these things called penless peepers so they’re bot they’re blinders but they look like kanye west sunglasses right and they they fit into the nostrils on the top of the beak it’s completely humane and um they keep the chicken from seeing straight ahead so she can’t attack but she can still see well enough that she can pack and scratch and bite so um salt and pepper had to wear these for a while while they um got used to pharrell and mary j blige it took a little while and they got over it but that was that was a thing for a while that’s fantastic i i can’t wait to read your story there’s so much more to hear about the chicken business how you raise them how lovely they can be and then also there are some very troubling things which you will talk about in the story i’m not gonna let you tell tell everyone now but uh make sure you open the email on sunday you will love caroline doheck’s first sunday story and thanks for tuning in everyone thank you so much