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Kōrero: Poultry industry

Champion layer

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Champion layer

In 1960 a farm hen laid on average 164 eggs per year. This Barred Rock pullet, at the Wallaceville Poultry Unit, laid 283 eggs in 48 weeks in 1955–56.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: AANR 6329 60 A11670

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Vanessa Wintle rāua ko Stacey Lepper, Poultry industry – Growth of the egg industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17297/champion-layer (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Vanessa Wintle rāua ko Stacey Lepper, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.