The New York Times recently released a report confirming that Americans have doubled purchases of chicks in recent days.
The newspaper said, it will become "impossible" over the next few weeks to find chicken chicks in their stores.
In difficult times, Americans buy chicks, the newspaper says, and it points to higher sales at times like the stock market slump or during the election season.
Tom Watkins, of the Murray McMurray hatchery in Iowa, said he sold all his chicks and said that people are heavily buying chicken just "just as they are buying toilet paper."
Many stores sell all their chicks as soon as new batches arrive, and some stores have long lines in the early morning before they open their doors.
The New York Times says the anxieties of people forced to stay in their homes, mixed with high unemployment and financial instability, create strange things like this.