Are all the chickens on strike?

It's the same here - I assume they're being added to all the flour that's disappearing from the shops as soon as it appears!

From my village shop a couple of days ago..... ? ? ?
All local, free range too.

Ours are laying well, we are supplying friends and neighbours.

The hens have been laying so well around here that people are giving the eggs away! One of the advantages of living in the country. I've managed to get some in my supermarket delivery, too. No flour though. Good job I bought some before lockdown!

So many people are baking, that the usual crop of eggs isn’t sufficient. I get my eggs from a regular trade in the weekly market.

It may have something to do with making potential Corona virus vacines. I know that Flu vacines are prepared using hens eggs as part of their manufacture and testing.

I've seen plenty in small local shops. They've had flour and loo roll all the time too - only supermarkets seem to have run out. Our pet shop sells local free range eggs. Word got around, though, and for a while, there were none left for regular locals - until they were removed from view!

Supermarkets all seem to run out here but the local high street shops have plenty. Butchers, bakers, grocers are all selling eggs with no shortages.

It is weird ours are being delivered by the milkman now but there was a gap.

In my view we should be awash with eggs as all the restaurants, hotels, cafes etc are closed. Where are those eggs going?

The only supermarket eggs that I have been able to get are in boxes of 15 in 'mixed sizes'.
That's what it says on the box, anyway, but the last lot weren't 'mixed' sizes, but very definitely all small - they looked so small that I decided, out of curiosity, to weigh each one to check, and they were all around 50g. Yes, I was bored at the time!

In reality, I'm just glad that I have been able to get eggs at all (couldn't for a few weeks), and want to make it clear that this is an observation, not a moan

How strange - we don't seem to have any trouble getting eggs with our online deliveries. In fact I had a dozen eggs delivered yesterday, and wished I hadn't because I already had a dozen and a half! I thought I'd removed them from my online basket.....

A lot of the ones around are labelled “from caged hens” rather than “free range”. - what’s going on?

Eggs are slowly returning here. A friend who is shielded had a kind neighbour bring her eggs last week but she also received 15- an odd number.

There was the best stock of eggs in our local (Kent) Tesco yesterday than there has been for weeks. With all sizes available. Our farm shop has had eggs all along but were rationing I don't know if they still are.

I get a dozen weekly from my milkman, they are delicious. I’ve never seen such dense golden yolks.

Update - 5th May - Still no eggs in Exeter supermarkets. Does anyone think that driving to farm shop about 20mins away would count as essential travel?

We are able to buy eggs no problem

Tesco had eggs -hooray! so I ordered some.

However, I just checked my order and they are unavailable (again) but they offered me a substitution which I believe are eggs from battery chickens so I said no.

The problem is caterers and manufacturers use lower grade eggs that supermarkets would not want to stock, even liquid eggs, where there is no traceability. Better to disappoint customers than stock substandard product.

Evie I could always post you one - but I can’t get out to our nearest post office which is 3 miles away

I’m inundated.
A friend works in a place that produces eggs for consumption and for medical research. They have too many at the moment so every week 2 doz are on my doorstep.
My neighbour has lots of chickens so she does an egg run every week to her neighbours!
I do pass some on but am trying to use as many as possible.
Creme caramel anyone?
Too messy to post so you have to come and pick it up. I’ll leave it at the end of the drive.?

I can get eggs but not always a choice which ones. Still I’m grateful to get eggs.
The current shortage here is boxes of tissues but there’s always loo roll.

Golden yolks don’t always mean much Scotpiper. The hens have probably been fed supplements to colour the yolk.

Plenty of eggs here, local and free range too. Lovely and fresh.
There hasn't really been a noticeable shortage of anything locally .
The bakery which is closed has been missed for their fresh crusty bread and cream cakes. I've had to learn to do without all these weeks