Take Control Of Their Food Supply": Tractor Supply CEO Says Backyard Chicken Demand Skyrockets

 

Anyone with any form of a back yard, can raise shickens and produce eggs of superior quality to anything produced by our factory farms.  all it ever took was a price signal and everyone has the time and energy to do so,  just like that.

And really, why not.  Quality chickens and quality eggs were the family staples when half the population were farmers.  beef and pork was harvested once a year, Lamb as needed for a feast, and only chicken was to hand almost daily.  milk and cheese filled in the spaces.

Refrigeration has allowed availability to be fully extended ,but agan ,this is something we can do locally as well.

"Take Control Of Their Food Supply": Tractor Supply CEO Says Backyard Chicken Demand Skyrockets

by Tyler Durden

Saturday, Apr 26, 2025 - 03:00 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/take-control-their-food-supply-tractor-supply-ceo-says-backyard-chicken-demand

President Trump's swift action to combat soaring egg prices, caused by the Biden-Harris regime's mass culling of egg-laying hens just before he took office, has been nothing short of spectacular.

Egg prices have since collapsed, forcing Democratic strategists to abandon their propaganda warfare efforts with corrupt leftist corporate media to blame "egg-flation" on Trump when, in reality, it was a crisis of Biden's making through improper culling practices and no countermeasures to offset loss production. It's almost as if the prior administration wanted consumers to feel pocketbook pain.

Trump saves the day.

Earlier this year, as egg prices spiked to record highs during the tail end of the Northern Hemisphere's winter season, we urged readers to purchase backyard chicken coops and take control of their own food supply chains:

Months later, with the latest USDA retail egg prices down 62% from record highs of more than $8 per dozen, Tractor Supply CEO Hal Lawton confirmed to investors on an earnings call this week that the nationwide egg shortage sparked an unbelievable surge in chick demand at stores nationwide.

Here's more from Bloomberg:

Tractor Supply Co., a rural retailer best known for its animal feed and ranching equipment offerings, expects to sell a record amount of chicks this year as customers expand their broods and first-timers seek to avoid record-setting egg prices.

Those novice poultry farmers are attempting to "take more control of their food supply," Tractor Supply Chief Executive Officer Hal Lawton said during the company's first-quarter earnings call Thursday, after egg prices more than doubled this year.

Mizuho Securities Director David Bellinger wrote in a note earlier this month that 7 million to 8 million of Tractor Supply's loyalty members now own chickens.

In return, Lawton noted that Tractor Supply customers securing their own backyard chicken supply chains drive more recurring trips to store locations.

"Chick days is like an annuity for Tractor Supply as birds typically live five to seven years," Lawton said, adding, "One chicken can eat over 75 pounds of feed a year, which keeps customers coming back again and again."

A broader theme is unfolding within the "Make America Healthy Movement"—Americans are being encouraged to source their food from local farms or, in some cases, as with chickens, to build backyard coops and plant 'America First' gardens to break free from the toxic food supply chain controlled by the corrupt processed foods industrial complex.

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