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Looks like it’s the animal welfare activists saying not to. Which makes sense. People who panic buy a chicken likely don’t know how to take care of them. Plus if the only reason you buy one is because of the shortage, when the shortage is over people might abandon the chicken. And if you’re buying a chicken your probably getting it as a chick. By the time it starts producing eggs the shortage might be over
"Those adopting chickens “might be surprised to discover” that the birds could live for a decade or longer"
Any given Sunday is good by me. >


"Those adopting chickens “might be surprised to discover” that the birds could live for a decade or lo

That's a feature not a bug >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)


Animal welfare advocates are urging New Zealanders not to respond to a nationwide egg shortage by racing to buy chickens, as many supermarket shelves lay bare for the second week following a ban on battery cages.
New Zealand has 3.9m hens for egg production, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries.
The export value for the year ending June 2022 was about NZ$18m, while the Egg Producers Federation of New Zealand website reports that retail sales of eggs are worth upwards of NZ$286m.


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Why shouldn’t they get chickens if they don’t have eggs? I don’t understand. That’s literally the only way to get eggs…