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A Hotel for Chickens

By on January 31, 2013 in Ideas

This has to be a joke:

It’s a hotel – but with a major difference.

Instead of booking in guests in human form, Cornwall’s newest hotel only takes chickens.

The aptly-named Chicken Hotel recently opened for business at Boskenwyn, Helston.

The venture was set up to give chicken owners a place to check-in their birds while away from home.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,198 posts to the site.

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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    It does seem like it should be a joke. I am guessing they’re very serious, though. There are kennels for other animals, so I should not be that surprised. On the other hand, asking someone to drop in and do a little care taking while on vacation would probably work out a lot better.

  • Yvonne Wyrick

    Perhaps there is some underserved market in chickens.You may recall the article about the woman who formed a business selling chicken diapers.

  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane Carlson

    It does seem that there have been a number of chicken businesses recently, hasn’t it?

    When I posted this, I thought it was absolutely insane, but then later in the morning, my toddler accidentally let one of our chickens in the backdoor. As I chased the chicken around the kitchen, I realized to some, chickens are pets just as much as their dogs and cats. If dog hotels can profitably survive, why not chicken ones?

    Who knows?

  • http://www.dog-crate-shop.com Donna White

    I have to admit that eating eggs from your backyard chickens is beyond better than buying them from the store. Apparently, the playground-looking backyard chicken coops are becoming more popular, and yes, the darn things become pets. I used to call our Iza Browns our “Sisters”. Would I send them to a hotel? No. But if I couldn’t find anyone to chicken sit while away, then yes, I would consider a Chicken Hotel. I guess the hotel would keep any eggs, which would be a big plus.

  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane Carlson

    Good point. I hadn’t thought about the hotel keeping the eggs for you. That’d be a plus. When I’m gone, I always pay whoever feeds the chickens in eggs.

  • http://www.dog-crate-shop.com Donna White

    Yes Dane, it usually goes without saying that the chicken sitter keeps what eggs they collect. I wonder if the avian flu that has plagued some parts of the world would be a concern.

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