Just when you've thought you've seen it all..

Time for chicken soup

Ha! When I first moved into my current house I thought about building a portable one--a chicken tractor--you can move it around the yard so the chickens can eat the ticks and such in different parts of the yard, and still stay safe from predators. I made up the plans, but decided I already had enough animals to feed, and didn't do it. You can find plans for 'em all over the net now.....how's that for a niche! ;-)

Bobru, Cool. A portable chicken coop!

Craig, definitely a purple cow. Not the kind of product you'd expect to find on Clickbank though. I still think Hillbilly is behind it I'm imagining what marketing approach he would take with something like this.

Grant

It's gravity score on CB is worth exploring.

2nd place in line for this niche goes to Build a Chicken Coop in 3 Days - BuildaChickenCoopin3Days.com

Interesting niche eh...

Alvin Huang

hey Grant,

congrats on your purple cow..chicken there

Best of Luck!

Igor

Hmmm. Not my purple chicken

At first I thought it was a dumb idea. Not so sure about that now.

Grant

This apparently is getting to be a big thing. Just last week the local news had a story about a guy that was catching grief from the city he was in because he was raising like 3 or for chickens in his backyard for eggs and meat. Apparently many people are going back to raising poultry and gardening

I take it you are a 'city boy', eh? How do you think them grocery stores get filled up with food stuffs 'n keeps yar belly full? There are actually a lot of farmers in the U.S. and Canada you know

i wonder, how you manage the waste? - i guess its included in the material.:-)

Very interesting idea. I think that the web is the new best money source from the discover of earth oil !

The world is changing at a fast pace. Now there are live animals that one can keep and use for meat or to lay actual eggs. How should one capitalize on this new so-called "chicken" technology? Personally, I'm going to await the development of Chicken 2.0 as I think it will have a web interface that will make it much more useful to internet marcluckers.

If I didn't live in downtown philly I'd be raising my own eggs as well. Plus I'd love a full rotisserie chicken every now and then

Wonder if I can train my hamsters to lay eggs! Write me an ebook about that and I'll pay 29.95!

Whoever is making this has high production values, so the only trick is finding the people who want to build chicken coops.

300k people searching for chicken coop says Google's AdWords Tool.

If I didn't get so easily attached to these critters I'd do one. But then I'd have to kill them. Better let the dirty work for somebody else. Hey, It's outsourcing your food supply. Mike Filsaime said you should outsource things you don't like!

Tyrus

I think that it's a great idea. Go for it! Good Luck!

My 79 year old Mother in-Law lives in a suburb of Sacramento and has had chickens in her backyard for a couple of years now. I think she has 3 hens, chicks and a rooster and thoroughly enjoys them. She doesn't have the big, full size chickens, but ones that are smaller. She puts them up at night in dog carriers or they roost in a trumpet vine on her back patio. A portable coop is a terrific idea.
If you only have 3 or 4, there shouldn't be enough "waste" to worry about it, and their bug eating is a real plus. The biggest concern are the predators.
On a similar note, we raise beef cows but have discovered a niche in the friendly, family milk cow. When we have one, it sells within a couple , sometimes hours, at a very good price. It will take some time, but we are going to increase our presence in that niche.

Definitely give it a shot.

*C*

That would sell well in my part of the world.

Man... Sounds like a great idea, but for the 5AM "wake up call" by the rooster. I wonder if the book has a tip or two to trick the resident Rooster to do 8AM "wake up calls".

I think that's the part that would get neighbors to take note and call the Mayor's hotline.

Sam

The owner is making some serious cash, he's got loads of affiliates promoting his site.

wow... I wish I can see how much if anything they have made off that!

My grandparents used to raise chickens (they lived right beside us too but the rooster was actually kind of cool). I wish back then they'd had the correct plans to build a working chicken coop because most of it was some of that tacky bright green roofing stuff with some boards nailed up on the sides. So there's definitely a market!

Yikes...

I am a city girl at heart and always will be...when I was down in Florida with Vince...just around the corner was a house that had chickens and roosters I thought it was the craziest thing to see, I've even got pictures of them walking along the street...

Could never be a farm girl either...would get too upset eating my friends...as my children would probably too...not a blood and guts girl LOL..

BUT...in the current economic state, I could very well see the potential in the gardening, farming, raising animals niches...I know even I've thought of putting in side strawberry, and other berry type plants in the back yard to offset the rising food costs.

Sylvia

I live in NY, the suburbs of Long Island. Believe it or not there are several "backyard farmers" in Brooklyn. They do organic eggs, organic gardens. It's very popular in the city on rooftop gardens and small neighbourhood gardens in the Village and Tribeca, too. It's very chic in the city to grow your own organic stuff in raised beds and fertilize with chickens in a tractor-style coop.

There's a huge Farmer's Market in Union Square and another in Tribeca, too.

With the crappy economy it'll probably get even more popular.

Oh, and roosters are only necessary if you want fertilized eggs to make babies. Otherwise, hens lay unfertilized eggs without a rooster.

I live in MA suburb with about 70 houses. There are 2 neighbors raising chickens in the coops.
One lives next to my home.
Well...
They do have a rooster.
And he is a very ambitious one.
And not every night...
I have very good night sleep.

Oh - I do farming thing though!
I grow tomatoes

Actually growing your own eggs is catching on. I have a neighbor who does just this.

Yep... we have three major things working for the "back to basics" niche:

1. Food sickness/scares left and right over the last year
2. Crashed economy and several years of problems still predicted
3. (US) government push for sustainable/renewable energy

People have woken up big time and realized their "security" in job, banks, retirement funds, etc aren't so secure after all... so they're responding.

- They're looking for ways to moonlight, freelance, or start their own business.
- And they're looking for ways to sustain themselves in a more realistic "secure" way at home.

That means they're starting to grow their own food. People all over the country are ripping out perfectly manicured landscaped front yards and planting vegetable gardens. They're learning what compost is, how to make it and how to use it. They're looking at waterless/composting toilets. They're looking at natural heating and cooling techniques for their home. And yes they're raising chickens

This niche has grown really well in the last year and I expect it to keep booming for several more at the very least.

uhm...i might do some keyword research. If people come up with such products there is usually a reason. This might be an untapped niche with high demand and worth to check out.

Add: Yes..thats an amazing micro niche. Quite some searches for those plans.