Good Lord, the price of eggs!

jackieb

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

I've also noticed more nearly out of date eggs on the bargain shelf in ASDA. Older eggs are still good for hard boiling and pickling.

I always used to chuck eggs out as soon as they reached their date - but now I just do the sink or float test and have used ones well over a week past their date and they've still been sat on the bottom of the jug full of water - and they've been just fine. Once they start to float they're no good.

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I used to buy happy eggs, until I read about the way the eggs are produced, then we moved and lots of local people sell free range eggs. Just £1 for 6 eggs and that includes duck eggs, that is one of the upsides of being in a rural villiage

The general price won`t stay high for long as hens are quick producers

Badger_Lady

I_luv_cats wrote: »

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/shopping/findproducts.aspx?query=eggs


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Eggs from caged hens.
Eggs of different sizes.
Class A eggs.
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I bought some from Morrisons 2 weeks ago and they were 69p for 6 caged.

I'm confused about this... if we no longer have any battery farms in the UK and imported eggs from batteries are disallowed, where do they find these?

Not that I would ever, ever dream of buying them - I'd rather eat fewer eggs or none at all than support battery farming.

jackieb

It says here that Sainsburys have won a good egg award for only stocking eggs from cage-free eggs? http://www.ciwf.org.uk/what_we_do/egg_laying_hens/default.aspx

Our Good Egg Awards reward European food companies for going cage-free - sourcing only barn or free-range eggs, instead of eggs from caged hens. Winners so far include Sainsbury's, McDonald’s (UK), and Unilever (including Hellmann’s mayonnaise in the UK). A projected 25 million laying hens are set to benefit from our Good Egg Award winners’ policies to date.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Badger_Lady wrote: »

I'm confused about this... if we no longer have any battery farms in the UK and imported eggs from batteries are disallowed, where do they find these?

Not that I would ever, ever dream of buying them - I'd rather eat fewer eggs or none at all than support battery farming.

what i can make out the sizes of the cages that were used are banned...

now they just have bigger cages... and move about a little bit more..

due to the large cost of converting over to the bigger cages... has put alot of smaller producers out of business, so now we have an egg shortage...

spike7451

My local grocers sold 10 local large eggs for a 99p,because of something,cant remeber what tho,they've gone up to £1.50

heretolearn_2

Badger lady - we still have battery eggs in UK, just slightly improved conditions for the chickens, but they are still awful.

I don't buy any battery eggs. For those who say they buy 'farm' eggs and don't know if they are battery or not as it doesn't say, they are battery. Writing 'farm' on a box means nothing. A battery farm is still a farm and if an egg is produced free range etc the producers shout about it on the box as it's a premium product and they cost more. If it says nothing, then it is 100% certain to be a battery egg.

Personally I think eggs are still good value when you compare to other sources of protein. A half dozen does a family dinner - what meat can you get for the same price?

lostinrates

lally666young wrote: »

My mum noticed this and I said to her "why didnt you come and see me". I agree lots of things are shooting up in price. I dont know why, Chickens havent gone up in price to buy.

Well, chickens are not the main cost of egg production!

Feed has gone up significantly in recent years, and as we are predicted a drought year i do not see that changing this year.

Bedding has also gone up a bit (this year we used big bales of straw to try and negate that somewhat, but we have rather more strage here than the average back yard hen owner)

Bppetrol going up also impacts.....the cost of transporting eggs from units to point of sale. This is a huge advantage the smallholder or back yard egg keeper has, but doubt it compensates wholly against the lack of being aboe to bulk buy food.

lostinrates

heretolearn wrote: »

Badger lady - we still have battery eggs in UK, just slightly improved conditions for the chickens, but they are still awful.

I don't buy any battery eggs. For those who say they buy 'farm' eggs and don't know if they are battery or not as it doesn't say, they are battery. Writing 'farm' on a box means nothing. A battery farm is still a farm and if an egg is produced free range etc the producers shout about it on the box as it's a premium product and they cost more. If it says nothing, then it is 100% certain to be a battery egg.

Personally I think eggs are still good value when you compare to other sources of protein. A half dozen does a family dinner - what meat can you get for the same price?

With reference to the bit in bold, please make an exception for gate sales of eggs. We are not allowed by law to make qualatative statements about our eggs....no fresh, free range, or organic. We are meant to just say 'eggs' or 'eggs for sale' and a price. People may or maynot use their eyes to note chickens running around, with those that free range over some distance like mine even the most observant might not see them!

thriftwizard

LiR, I've never had to use red mite treatment in the chicken shed; it's a converted garden shed with a corrugated bitumen roof & the mites don't seem to like bitumen at all. They did get into the broody ark, with a felt roof, long ago, but the bantams have decided they'd rather raise chicks in the main shed now so that's long gone. I only have 9 ATM, 4 bantams & 5 big girls, and they're mostly in a big "deep-litter" run at the end of our little urban garden; they come out for an hour so before dusk for a rampage round the garden. The "litter" is straw mixed with leaves, collected from the pavement outside my shop, where they're a hazard to pedestrians. I've been known to use shredded paper for bedding but straw is the main material, with a thick layer of newspaper underneath. I use Vermex once a year (cost shared with other backyard keepers on our street, basically pence) but always put a drop of cider vinegar in their drinking water, which seems to keep most mischief at bay. I also dry & grind eggshells to add into their feed for calcium; there's no shortage of grit in our riverbank-type soil. Eldest girl is nearly 9 (a Pekin) so either they're very hardy or OS chicken-keeping's not too bad for them!