" This is Money Markets & More for this Wednesday August 5 2009. From the newsroom at the MarketWatch radio network I'm Adrian itself. Coming up is booking a vacation online feeling too much like work I'm Tracy Johnke coming up strap on suspenders on your cover all -- to can be yet chicken -- that's right even people in the suburbs are getting into it. And case who will be joined to talk about that in just a minute but first this now."

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" Hey Adrian ain't nobody here but it's chickens you think -- 66. I mean six hits that tipped snaps at times literally -- and literally and -- is here to talk about. What is new in."

" The world of ticks and answering it. We've talked earlier about how more people we're gonna plan vegetable gardens -- summer growing their own food to. Take care of their family's need because Dalembert on grocery bills will now. Demand for chicks is on the rise people. Not just on farms that in areas where it's allowed -- sell out -- are raising chicks and a shed their backyard or maybe in their garage or whatever but they're -- they're raising if you chicks in order to get eggs and still -- they sort of have a hedge against the economy mount -- chickens in the Sydney basically basically to be a movie by the way that's that's I like that -- earlier right they the companies that. Ship out live chicks. Say there's been about 7% increase this year in those shipments of those. Baby chicks because wisely have more people are buying them. These what these would be the big farm operations -- to be you when you decide you want. Six chicks and raise them and get the eggs and do all that stuff. So the more people are doing that interestingly enough. For New York City you're allowed to have. Like -- that your I'm sure there's a limit on how many do it. But the one progress cropping up is a lot of a lot of suburban neighborhoods it's against either the local zoning laws or maybe your homeowner's association laws so we have. Sometimes people complaining about. C CB a Roma and -- these little -- operations but in some cases like Fort Collins, Colorado they're actually asking. For exceptions to rules and allowing -- have homeowners allowed to have. A certain number of chickens without a rooster because as the antenna. Loud noisy first."

" Median earnings adding from Experian yes yes and farm girl. Here that I mean I'm trying to mansion in New York City you know keeping chickens in your your fifth floor walk -- people people do one guy who's in the New York Times -- article -- quoted was in Brooklyn and he raises. Chickens and he sells the angst in the local restaurants they get six dollars a -- pretty darn good day. How well they adapt say there is nothing like a farm fresh and necklaces delayed by house has ever had one print. They're pretty darn good hands and an Obama I don't think it quite makes up for all of the work and expense they mean 'cause you do have to you know care for them every day -- clean out there. There -- little touches and and feed them the feed itself that's probably I mean it and I've been out of it for years that I I don't remember being particularly."

" Cheap nowadays they're saying that that's what they point out specialists say if if you're gonna be raising chicks are not. Can going to get it to get wealthy because speed accounts for about. 75% of the cost of raising a chick that you also have actually bias. Yet have a place for to live is can't check in the backyard and overeating goes accusing me to have some kind of place for it to lives so that can all -- up another woman was quoted fear that she'd made roughly 500 dollars on her angst but it. But our ethics issued may yet anyway should have with a 29 dollar profit after all is said and done welcome to farming yeah so. But up people who do it feel like like you said they were they -- a farm fresh and even though it's cheaper to run to the grocery store and grab a carton of them. They bid there's in this organic transfer a long time also the locals they feel like this is. Sort of a microcosm. As a way of doing."

" And people in that you mentioned they they get them through the mail -- that's that's strange bank as a kid we made every once a year we get it crate. A live baby chicks in an LA and it is. And then you know -- and pat Browning put them in their little island on little house and the house you lived under heat lamps and we beat them can monitor house they had their little. Traveled here in everything like there little -- came in this sorted by heavy cardboard waiting crate with the air holes and I always wondered how that works in they get who followed her effort to develop an -- track I didn't know how -- they out they always came all of them you know seeming cleaned it -- then. Happy assistant worked you know at Baston. They did they did it got so bad studied it a bit -- there's yeah. So anyway so that's this excellent the newest and right now at least during this recession where people -- are interested -- In having chicks. On if that is something if that's something that you answer interested in new. -- markets and our listeners are you are you thinking about buying some live birds there are you know going into the chicken farming business and our way. Whether you live in a tiny apartment in the city year maybe have some nicer digs in her -- in the country. And if if so whether it's not like to hear from here and how how can get elements that can -- that MarketWatch radio -- Yahoo.com. Or at Twitter and W radio and warehouse on FaceBook and market entry in board -- and thank you back -- thanks Tracy and and that's it for Money Markets & More. -- Adrian Mitchell thanks for listening till next up."

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