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Mainland Poultry chief executive John McKay and chairman of the Egg Producers Federation told Ryan Bridge TODAY the nationwide agribusiness had more than 1.3 million hens, with about 550,000 of those farmed as free-range.<\/p>\n

He said free-range eggs made up about 45% of New Zealand\u2019s total egg market, so there was clear consumer demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, we care deeply about our birds,\u201d McKay said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s better understand the risk, understand where it might have spread or where it hasn\u2019t spread, and then based on better understanding that risk, we can then make good decisions about what we do with those birds going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Zealand\u2019s first known case of the H5N1 strain was recorded on Wednesday<\/a> in a wild brown skua found on Lower Hutt\u2019s Petone Beach, with a second detection in a native k\u0101hu, or swamp harrier, in the Wairarapa announced Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mainland Poultry chief executive John McKay and chairman of the Egg Producers Federation told Ryan Bridge TODAY the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35875,63338,4381,52596,1379,134,78,117,111,139,139205,69,90,93742,179568,13120,1326,16739,39711,19862,3055,92,80],"class_list":["post-534595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bird","tag-chains","tag-customers","tag-egg","tag-flu","tag-health","tag-in","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-normally","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-poultry","tag-reassures","tag-remain","tag-shop","tag-shoppers","tag-stable","tag-supply","tag-urging","tag-woolworths","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}