I rarely buy eggs so I can be a little picky. I only need 6 but want eggs where the chickens are well looked after.
What eggs would be reasonably priced and be good for the chickens?

Edit: I decided to go with One Organic eggs from Tesco. Was idling between that and Kitty Campbell eggs.

organic is good yes - the hens are fed feed that isn't genetically modified or sprayed with pesticides and have more restrictions in their use of medicine. But Im sure organic doesn't mean free range. So the organic eggs could still come from caged hens.

The best ones would to buy free range organic, really the best and tastiest you can buy!

Go to a farm and see them running about naturally. They are cheaper.

Took a closer look and the package does say Free range.

Which for me is best of both worlds. It means no chemicals and the chickens had more room.

Free range isnt always what it seems Was going to go into a bit of an animal rights rant but decided to keep it brief.

Have a wander in the countryside and find someone who sells eggs from hens that have lots of open space to do what comes naturally. Anyone who values theyre ladies welfare will only be too happy to oblige in letting you see them. Ours are roaming around the garden as we speak, digging up the gravel, dustbathing in the lawn, scratching for bugs, chasing off the wood pigeons, trimming the grass but not laying as its a bit too cold at the moment.

I buy my eggs - 12 for £2 - from a local chicken farm. You can see the hens running about in huge pens.

You must live in Australia if your hens can do that

Also hens don't stop laying if its a bit cold, they stop laying when they get too old

Our hens have stopped laying. They always stop laying in the winter time, although their production isn't brilliant in the summer either as they are getting older.

I buy my eggs from a local farm. Its daft, I have chickens who get fed and watered ... but I still have to buy eggs !!

Ours used to stop over winter if they don't they must be in a warm place to carry on through. Years ago the only way to have eggs in winter was to store them up at end of season, they used to be put in a big tub with what looked like wallpaper paste but smelled fishy and kept for a few months. Couldn't use them quite like fresh as the whites went runny after a while so couldn't incorporate air into them.

Seems pretty much like why humans periods stop according to this link
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articl...op-laying-eggs

And being cold isn't one of them.

OK so it isn't cold but that article tells you it's declining day length which surprise happens during the winter too. So for a different reason may be but they do stop during the winter months which is what we are saying.

Oh and periods don't stop due to declining day length as far as I am aware.

I wish my period stopped for the whole of winter. Bliss.

I am with you Mollie. My hens have always stopped laying in the winter time. To encourage them to keep laying you have to artificially heat the compound / house ... and I ain't doing that.

Yours stop then and ours don't, and ours don't get anymore daylight than yours so nobodies right in this situation.

Have kept hens on our farm for as long as I can remember and we've always had eggs throughout winter time

So why did all farmers wives and chicken keeping familes develop ways to store eggs ? I think yours must be super hens to carry on all year, especially since the link you provided says declining light will stop them.

Coming from a farming background I have no recollection of these ways to store eggs that you mention!
Also I wouldn't say that our hens are super hens at all I'm just speaking from experience from over 30 years of keeping hens on our farm. For me to find that your stop and then start again is news to me as ours only stop with old age.

lastly I didn't provide the link

Our hens have been laying all through winter, even in the harsh conditions of the highlands. We are averaging 5-6 eggs/day from 8 hens. OK, they are still under a year old but we don't give them any extra heat.

It's really odd having eggs when you stay in hotels, they are nowhere near as good.

my favourite supermarket eggs are Old Cotswold Legbar. pale blue shells

Burford Browns are nice eggs, deep orange yolk.

The "kindest" eggs are also the most expensive, namely, organic eggs where the organic certifier is the Soil Association. The only UK supermarket that sells them is Waitrose - look for the Duchy Originals label together with a reference to Columbian Blacktail hens. Waitrose have also started to sell other (cheaper) organic eggs, but they're not Soil Association approved.

I never said that did i? I said they stop for much the same reason as humans, such as lack of nutrition.

Theres many reasons hens stop laying, old age is indeed one of them but its not the only reason - shorter daylight hours, lack of calcium/protein, moulting to name the few obvious ones

Yeah I live in Australia, how did you guess :yawn:

I buy the free range Finest brown eggs (laid by bronze hens) from Tesco which are 1.99 for six or Sainsburys taste the difference free range, 1.79 for six. I only buy the best eggs, they taste superb and they are essential to make the most delicious cakes. The yolks are rich and deep orange. Omelettes made with these eggs are sublime.