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17 Apr 2020

What Covid-19 has done for sales of a chicken feeder

4:57 pm on 17 April 2020

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A Bay of Plenty firm selling rodent proof backyard chicken feeders says
sales in Australia are sky rocketing.
Chickens

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Mark Kirkham owns Grampa's Feeders - a business he and his father set
up over 25 years ago.

He said his father was tired of sparrows, rats and mice eating valuable
chicken feed so he spent several years perfecting the design of an
automatic feeder.

It was never intended to be a commercial venture, but it slowly became
a hugely successful home-grown business, with retailers selling the
feeders in Britain, the USA and Australia.
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Now Kirkham says after a marketing push in Australia co-inciding with
Covid-19, sales are "going bonkers."

People appear to be looking at ways to be self sufficient, running
chickens and growing vegetables.

"In fact I have heard in Australia it is impossible to buy chickens at
present. They have run out," he said.

"There are 10 to 12 feeders being sold a day."

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It is a pattern Kirkham also saw during the global financial crisis in
2008 when self sufficiency became a popular way to save money. Back
then, sales of Grampa's Feeders were bringing in $10,000 a week.

Meanwhile, Kirkham says New Zealand sales have virtually stopped
because there is no distribution network.

He believed that would change when the alert level 4 lockdown was over
and normal sales outlets reopened.

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