--- title: 3 eggcellent cash flow opportunities - The Hustle description: Egg prices are way up. Here’s how you can cash in. image: https://media.hubspot.com/hubfs/Imported%20images/TheHustle+HubSpot_Lockup.svg --- # 3 eggcellent cash flow opportunities ![Codie Sanchez](https://53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/53/assets/hubspot.com/web-team/WBZ/HubSpot%20Media/Blog%202021/Images/Nav/Optimized/TheHustle_Icon_Dark.svg) [Codie Sanchez](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/codie-sanchez) [Codie Sanchez Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/Codie_Sanchez) Published: April 29, 2022 Updated: October 11, 2023 The cost of scrambled eggs recently [popped](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/04/16/bird-flu-egg-prices/) **300%** in one week. What the cluck? ![3 eggcellent cash flow opportunities](https://media.hubspot.com/hubfs/Imported%20images/TheHustle+HubSpot_Lockup.svg) There’s nothing funny about food prices spiking to all-time highs. The average American eats **245** eggs a year, and price bumps can add a considerable amount to grocery bills for families that are already cash-strapped. But whenever I see this kind of phenomenon, I ask, “What are the 2nd and 3rd-order effects?” So, egg prices spiked. Now what? One of the best ways to combat inflation is by taking the means of production into our own hands. (For example, raising your own chickens, which, for **~$381**, can set you up with [endless eggs](https://thehustle.co/how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-chickens-coronavirus/) for years to come.) Here are 3 ways entrepreneurs can play the chicken vs. egg game: - **Rental chickens:** Companies like [RentACoop](https://www.rentacoop.com/) and [Rent The Chicken](http://www.rentthechicken.com/) deliver customers 2-4 hens, a coop, feed, and directions. You can babysit your chicken for 4 weeks to 6 months and it’ll cost between $250 and $500. At the end, you can even buy them. The owner of cleverly named Rent The Chicken noted a [**48%**](https://www.aarp.org/home-family/your-home/info-2020/backyard-chickens.html#:~:text=The%20chicken%2Drental%20business%20has,percent%20from%202020%20to%202021.) YoY increase in her business in 2021. Maybe start a competitor? - **The chicken whisperer:** Chickens are walking targets. Everything tries to murder them. [This lady](https://gvwire.com/2020/12/30/raising-backyard-chickens-grows-in-popularity-during-pandemic/) sells chickens, coops, etc., and teaches you how to raise and protect them. In 2020, her sales were up **400%**. - **Chicken influencer:** You could do what the kids do these days — document yourself buying backyard chickens and create products around it, [like Jill did](https://www.instagram.com/jill.winger/). The lesson is to always strive for the information advantage and act. Happy harvesting, Codie **P.S.** If new cash flow ideas are your thing, you should definitely subscribe to my newsletter, [Contrarian Thinking](https://bit.ly/3AtUpZl). Topics: [Agriculture](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/tag/agriculture) ## Follow us on social media prev next - ![Kinda gross, but kinda cool? A startup that tells synthetic fertilizers to piss off](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/2036425542-httpsthdaily.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.comfinal_size-peeplants_20230918220827.webp) ### Kinda gross, but kinda cool? A startup that tells synthetic fertilizers to piss off - ![A summer without peaches sucks, but the Peach State has a lot more going for it](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/93167076-httpsthdaily.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.comfinal_size-georgia_20230827235223.webp) ### A summer without peaches sucks, but the Peach State has a lot more going for it - ![Are your pigs overheating? 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