And raising your own food doesn't mean that you need
to own your own farm. It might be as
simple as just raising your own backyard chickens. And
the Agri tech startup coop wants to help a new
senior reporter Michelle Castillo has a flock to learn about
when choosing your next household project. Coop wants you
to consider picking chickens. We are full tilt crazy
chicken people and we want more and more people to
experience all the joys hilarious and otherwise chickens with chicks
starting at$3 and a carton of eggs reaching an
average price of$5.59 in November 2022. It can
be a good investment when the price of eggs increase
, people start thinking about how they could grow their
own food. And coop promises to help you bring
your yard to your table. We've seen what happened
during COVID with with food shortages. We can't be
, you know, so reliant on these volatile food
systems but not everyone has first hand farm experience.
So the company is trying to make it easier to
get started. We send you like a flat pack
box. It takes like 10 minutes to assemble.
Each bottle fits 4 to 6 chickens. It comes
equipped with 24 7 cameras and automatic door closures.
An app lets you watch your feathered friends remotely.
We have dog cameras, we have all these other
technologies and innovations for all sorts of animals, but
there's been nothing for backyard chickens. And if you're
in Texas, there's a network of 100 people ready
to help. They're called chicken tenders. Think of
it as like rover or wag meets like backyard agriculture
. So they'll come over, they'll clean your coop
, they'll do chicken check in. So it's like
babysitting when you're traveling and they'll do delivery and set
up. Only 8% of us households have backyard chickens
, but it can be effective with one chicken laying
250 eggs annually. If one in five households do
this, then we can completely eliminate like large scale
industrial farming. It doesn't matter which comes first the
chicken or the egg. As long as you're open
to raising your own flock, there's really something powerful
about knowing where your food comes from and walking out
in the morning, grabbing an egg for breakfast in
Austin, Texas. I'm Michelle Castillo.