The concept behind Rent The Chicken is simple. The Templetons provide customers with two or four hens, all the feed they need, instructional materials, tutorials, and even phone support. For about $600 for a six-month rental, customers can expect around a dozen eggs per week from two hens. The process, the Templetons assure, is easy.

Christine and Brian Templeton in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire are renting chickens out to combat soaring egg prices across the US. The 'Rent The Chicken' service works with farms and homesteads to bring hens to customers across the US.