What we have learned so far....
The EggTracker has been running (in some form) since 2008 and in total the tool has been used 86,693 times.
That is enough to make approximately 21,673 Victoria Sponges!
What egg codes are most common?
There are different types of eggs and in the UK these are classified into 4 types.
Egg codes tracked, by type
How does that compare nationally?
Here's how the eggs tracked on this site stack up against what's actually sold in UK shops.
EggTracker vs UK shops, by egg type
National figures are rounded UK retail-market shares, not production totals -- see the British Egg Industry Council's egginfo.co.uk for the latest.
What about some distances?
Each time someone uses our tool we log the distances travelled so we can work out some averages.
The total number of miles tracked accross the tool, to date, is 10,024,824
This means that the average distance an egg has travelled, from egg to farm, in the UK is 116 miles.
How far do tracked eggs travel?
Longest journeys tracked
- 1 Free-Range TS3 area 997 mi
- 2 Free-Range CV21 area 995 mi
- 3 Free-Range L31 area 995 mi
- 4 Cage TS1 area 994 mi
- 5 Free-Range 5 area 991 mi
Does where you buy make a difference?
We also ask where each egg was bought from -- here's how the average distance compares.