Where are all the eggs?

[Kidds]

I've got a few dozen goose eggs

 

[Dave W]

Lovely set up.
Wish I knew where to get some. We can't produce enough for our customers. I feel sorry for the regulars who have supported us for years. They are coming for eggs and finding non left!

This is a rather long winded way to say I can't come scrounging eggs anymore

 

[landslave the 2nd]

Seen local man selling 6 for £3 and 12 for a £5, gose at £2 each ... flying off the shelf

 

[Sid]

Plenty on the shelves of bookers today

 

[Tim G]

We have a local guy supply us with eggs for our little farm shop, we usually sell around 500 eggs a week. Two weeks ago we sold 3,000! Our chap also supplies cafes, pubs etc which has dried up but road side sales and shops like ours have swollowed the 'surplus' and more. We've started rationing customers to 12 eggs a household, but we're now running out of boxes and can't get any more.

 

[Sid]

We have a local guy supply us with eggs for our little farm shop, we usually sell around 500 eggs a week. Two weeks ago we sold 3,000! Our chap also supplies cafes, pubs etc which has dried up but road side sales and shops like ours have swollowed the 'surplus' and more. We've started rationing customers to 12 eggs a household, but we're now running out of boxes and can't get any more.

Vegans saving lives, going to hatch them ?

 

[Lincs Lass]

We have a local guy supply us with eggs for our little farm shop, we usually sell around 500 eggs a week. Two weeks ago we sold 3,000! Our chap also supplies cafes, pubs etc which has dried up but road side sales and shops like ours have swollowed the 'surplus' and more. We've started rationing customers to 12 eggs a household, but we're now running out of boxes and can't get any more.

Ask the customers to bring the boxes back for a refill instead of throwing them in the recycle bin ,,I do ,,just swap trays over

 

[Tim G]

Ask the customers to bring the boxes back for a refill instead of throwing them in the recycle bin ,,I do ,,just swap trays over

Yes, that's the plan, can't take the boxes back, but we are aiming to let them refill their own.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Roadside sellers have jumped the price from £1 half dozen too £1.50 and the public havent cared. They would pay £3 now , food is suddenly important to them

I can get thousands at £2/dozen large £1-75 median

 

[upnortheast]

Rumour from our egg supplier that there is bird flu about in Scotland that has taken out a number of flocks, which has tightened supply.
Unconfirmed so far ?

 

[jimbo69]

Shops here (South Aberdeenshire) have had hardly had any eggs the last couple of weeks. Was driving to my Granny’s farm today (in Moray) and got a dozen for £2 at an honesty box at the roadside. There were plenty left as well.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

3 a day here, if I can find them.

H ha same here!!

 

[som farmer]

begs the question, if a lot of caterers are on 'hold', and eggs are still short, surely home bakers can't have taken all that supply up ? So, where were caterers etc, getting their eggs from prior to this ? Imported, whole eggs, and dried product, or is it best not to know, bloody shame fox cleared our last lot out.

 

[Bones]

begs the question, if a lot of caterers are on 'hold', and eggs are still short, surely home bakers can't have taken all that supply up ? So, where were caterers etc, getting their eggs from prior to this ? Imported, whole eggs, and dried product, or is it best not to know, bloody shame fox cleared our last lot out.

they were getting them from company's which sold liquid egg, thousand gallons of whites or yokes can make some nice cakes, one company in Co fermanagh doing it, but I'm sure there's English company's doing it ,

 

[glasshouse]

Rumours that a very large producer has bird flu

 

[som farmer]

Rumours that a very large producer has bird flu

didn't that start in china as well ?
if so, it joins with African swine fever (25 % of the world pig population dead ), several other flu's, and now this c19, which has shut the world down. Not a nice country.

 

[ollie989898]

Not really sure, chickens don't lay extra eggs just because demand rises but there are still plenty bwing produced, it'll settle down. Naturally the producer isn't getting any extra money from the retailers though....

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1244220926192955392

Fair play my man, you get on twitter, facebook, BBC anything and sell what you do. You have a nice setup there get out and sell it!

 

[Martin Holden]

Apparently it's not eggs that are the problem there are plenty of them but there are no egg boxes. The whole of Europe is supplied by just three egg carton manufacturers. None is based in Britain; and the nearest one – in Denmark – is closed for the next fortnight. And so we have warehouses full of eggs and queues of shoppers asking for eggs, but no means of connecting the two.

Bring your own egg box back in and re fill it then! All ours go to our SIL for her eggs. She had regulars who she sells then to and they never come back

 

[Bones]

Rumours that a very large producer has bird flu

Every large egg producer over here has bird flu , just cull the houses of birds that have it and start again , I would think there is bird flu floating about some part of the country every year,

 

[SteveHants]

Rumour from our egg supplier that there is bird flu about in Scotland that has taken out a number of flocks, which has tightened supply.
Unconfirmed so far ?

There was in January.
Not sure if it was got on top of before COVID 19