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Story: Poultry industry

Backyard chickens

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Backyard chickens

This family, dressed in Sunday best about 1910, view their flock of hens. The hens are inside a fenced run behind the substantial family home.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Adam MacLay Collection

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Vanessa Wintle and Stacey Lepper, Poultry industry – History and early developments, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17275/backyard-chickens (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Vanessa Wintle and Stacey Lepper, published 1 March 2009.