Egg price rise?? Where's the cheapest free range eggs??

ALIBOBSY

antrobus wrote: »

It's been known for some years that new EU regulations on egg production were coming into force on 1st January 2012. So all the money that was needed to be spent to implement these changes should already have been spent well before the start of this year, so there's no reason why there should be any further increases in the price of eggs.



Yes, that's what some people are saying. However the UK has also failed to meet the deadline as well.

http://www.farminguk.com/news/UK-fails-to-meet-cage-ban-deadline_22540.html

My understanding is this was the situation last year where britiah eggs ended up more expensive than the cheap imports from abroad (which mostly ended up used in factories for cakes etc). I heard that 13 countries (pretty much all smaller eastern countries) had failed miserably to implement this, so the larger countries where it has gone through ie. us/germany/france etc have banned the import/export of eggs from these countries until they sort things out. This means an overall drop in the number of eggs across europe.

Producers of other products will therefore turn to more local produces and prices go up-supply and demand. Obviously a shortage of one type of eggs making the price of battery eggs higher, then makes FR look more affordable so manufacturers start to buy those as well.

Basically the price of ALL eggs, quiches, pies, cakes, sauces etc will rise. In fact anything where eggs are used.

Makes my 3 little chooks in the back garden look even more of a bargain. They have a bag of feed (£6) every 6-8 weeks plus scraps/peelings/stuff from the garden-they love dandelions lol. We get some free wood shavings from neighbour and the odd bale of straw (perhaps £2 ish every 6-8 wks). We then get 18-20 eggs a week and compost for the veggies. Plus the company of some lovely little funny birds (well not that little-the cats certainly don't mess with them).

My mum and sister are now taking the odd 1/2 dozen here and there as the price is creeping up so fast and they give me a bit to supplement costs.
For anyone with a big family that uses a fair amount of eggs, it starts to look better and better.

Ali x

Stephen_Leak

Eggs should have a code number stamped on them. UK eggs also have a Best Before date stamped on them.

The egg on my desk as I write this is stamped ...

3UK11510
B/B24MAR

O = Organic (IIRC, this also implies free range)
1 = Free range
2 = Barn
3 = Cage

UK = Country of origin

11510 = Farm ID

B/B24MAR = Best Before 24 March

Paganmoon

I get my free range eggies from Aldi, i think they are 89p for 6 and there is also a bigger pack but don't know price.

Money_maker

cleggie wrote: »

http://www.iceland.co.uk/our-food/chilled-food
12 eggs for £1 at iceland. I owuldnt imagine they are FR though.

No they're not but the 6 for £1 are. Iceland will be trying to hold their price for as long as possible.

Makes me a little cross with my 5 ex batt rescue hens in my garden. They could try a little harder to pop out an egg!

Edwardia

Just noticed that eggs OH bought from Spar on Sunday have gone up 10p - and they're free range. I think FR producers will put up prices to maintain the price differential.

lynseync

The extra cost is worth it to help move towards a future where animals are treated properly. The quality of a non free range egg is also much lower - ever noticed the difference in yolk colour?

recovering_spendaholic

I always buy Sainsburys basics eggs - they are currently 89p for 6 or £1.89 for 18. They are sold as barn, but more often than not, if you look through the boxes you can find some stamped 0 and some 1. Last evening I had a look through the boxes and got three boxes of 6 - each egg in the box was absolutely enormous and each marked 1 - free range. I think they just put all the eggs which do not conform to the standards for each size grade into the basics eggs. Last month was even better - I got a box of 18 which were all marked 0 - organic!

ScarletRaven

I too have started to buy the boxes of 6 medium free range for 89p from Lidl, I get 2 boxes of these instead of a box of 15 for almost £3 at Morrisons.

Edwardia

I've seen people in ASDA swapping eggs so they get FR in caged hen box so if you buy FR check your stamps !

gnvqsos

Heron foods in Sheffield,85 pence for 6