Why are eggs so expensive? Here’s what a farmer and 14,000 hens told me

British eggs now cost almost a third more than a year ago. But that hasn’t stopped producers from going bust, or getting rid of their flocks. Who or what is to blame, apart from Putin, feed prices, the supermarkets … ?In a field outside the village of Kehelland, near Camborne in Cornwall, a brood of hens are doing their thing – clucking, scratching, pecking at the ground, ranging freely among the grasses, crimson clover and kale. “All right, girls?” says Pete Olds,