The Northern Tasmanian egg producer will soon expand with more chickens and more eggs produced after a development application for the construction of two new sheds was approved.

The Northern Midlands Council approved the DA on Tuesday, but Pure Foods Eggs managing director Danny Jones said a timeline on the sheds' construction was still not set.

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"If we weren't in the middle of a pandemic we'd be able to tell you that," he said.

"But we still have a few things to get through, we will start finalising the equipment orders and then we have the building application to file with the council."

Mr Jones said the two new sheds would be capable of housing 20,000 chickens each so that capacity would increase by 40,000 chickens.

Pure Foods Eggs produces eggs for the food services market and the consumer market through supermarkets and produces 44 million eggs per year.

"During the pandemic what we saw that that overall sales didn't change, but we had a bit of a shift, that our sales to the food services industry fell, but we saw an increase in the demand for supermarket sales," he said.

Pure Foods Eggs produces for the Tasmanian market, and Mr Jones said he thought the pandemic had increased demand for eggs as people started eating at home more.

The building application is expected to be lodged in the next couple of months, and in the meantime, the company will sort equipment.

Mr Jones said the business tried hard to support the Tasmanian rural sector through things like the purchase of grain for chicken feed.

"We have nearly finished our order of grain for the year, and we try and support Tasmanian farmers as much as we can," he said.

Pure Foods Eggs comes from free-range chickens, who have access to shelter and trees all year round on demand.

Mr Jones said the company had started on a tree-planting exercise a few years ago to increase the natural shelter available to the chickens.

Pure Foods Eggs also supplies a cage egg product, but Mr Jones said the demand had increased exponentially in free-range as consumers became more mindful.

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