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# Food Shortage of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/food-shortage-of-the-day/
- Published: 2022-11-25T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-25T04:35:57.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Business, Eat Smoke Drink, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

> Bad news for Kiwis who love a classic pavlova on Christmas, New Zealand is in for an egg shortage.  
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> New egg farming rules coming into force next month and high bird-feed costs are driving huge price increases and rationing of eggs.  
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> Newshub

The new farming rules have forced small egg farmers to either stop cage farming or stop farming altogether.

> In 2012, the government put into place a code of welfare for laying hens with changes to be made within 10 years’ time, which meant battery cages would no longer be legal by the end of 2022.  
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> At the time about 84% of producers used the cage method.  
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> Now they are having to redesign their businesses around the colony, barn or free range methods, each which brought their own challenges and expenses.  
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> Many opted for the colony method, which still saw chickens caged, but in groups up to 60 with a nesting area, scratching post and perches, he said.  
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> However, **most major supermarkets have pledged to stop selling colony eggs** by at latest 2027\. Countdown will quit selling colony eggs by 2025.  
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> ODT

[Read more here.](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2022/11/egg-shortage-to-reach-cracking-point-as-new-farming-restrictions-come-into-force-next-month.html?ref=goodoil.news) Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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