It was supermarkets, not customers who demanded free-range hens and the
price being paid for that has got higher:
New Zealand is “paying a high price” for a shift to free-range practices, a former poultry farmer alleges, as concerns emerge about a second Otago egg farm.
The comments from former Otago Peninsular egg-farmer Pieter Bloem come as Biosecurity New Zealand works through the culling of 80,000 chickens at a Mainland Poultry farm at Hillgrove, near Moeraki, after the H7N6 strain of avian flu was confirmed last weekend.
