Kristen Kemp, a yoga instructor and writer in New Jersey, has owned backyard chickens for more than a decade. “I just love them,” she tells Yahoo Life. Kemp’s had her current brood for around five years,

Record-high egg prices have more consumers considering backyard chickens, but farm rescues say they are expensive and hard to care for.

The national egg shortage isn’t just affecting local grocery stores and restaurants, but also people who raise backyard chickens in Georgia.