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Posted: 2023-06-28 04:49:32

As egg prices increase, backyard chickens are getting harder to come by and are much more expensive.

One poultry breeders and sellers say they can't produce enough chickens to satisfy consumer demand.

South Australian- based business WinkleWood Estate Poultry sells chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineafowls, and pheasants from their property.

Since starting the Mount Gambier business in 2020, co-owner Geoff Wood said they had not been able to keep up with incoming requests. 

Geoff Wood says they didn't expect the poulrty business to boom so quickly.()

"We sort of started out doing it for a bit of fun, and the demand was there," he said.

"It just got out of control … it has been full-on.

"I think if we had had another 1,000 chooks, we would have been able to sell them this year."

Mr Wood said, with egg prices on the rise, his customers often told him they were buying their poultry for home-laid eggs.

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