Finding eggs

Children discover eggs on Easter morning in all sorts of hiding places. Some small-scale farmers find eggs under hens. Most people find eggs on supermarket shelves.

If you’re searching for egg data, look no further; our website is where you can find them all in one basket.

If you came here looking for detailed chocolate Easter egg data, you’re out of luck. We can tell you, however, that sales of cookies, confectionery, and snack foods (a category that includes Easter candy) rise or fall depending on which month Easter falls.

In 2024, for example, when Easter fell in March, sales of cookies, confectionery, and snack foods rose by 17.0% from the previous month to $1.7 billion and then tailed off in April.

In 2025, when Easter fell in mid-April, retailers started selling Easter goodies in March (up 9.6% month over month to $1.6 billion) and kept on selling in April ($1.7 billion), before sales tailed off in May.

Among Canada’s 5,380 egg farms we counted during the 2021 Census of Agriculture, 165 were small in scale—that is, they reported having less than $25,000 a year in sales.

While the largest egg farms are mechanized, some of these smaller farms may still collect eggs the old-fashioned way, scooping the egg directly from under the clucking hen.

For most Canadians, eggs are readily accessible at grocery stores. Our food availability program, which tracks the amount of food available for consumption nationally, estimates that there were over 15 kilograms of eggs available per person in 2023, which corresponds with the quantity available in the early 1960s, when we started gathering data on the subject.

This has not always been the case, however. In the 1990s, for example, egg availability routinely fell below 10 kilograms per person.

Although egg prices at retail stores have trended downward in recent months, in February 2026, they were over one-quarter (29.1%) higher compared with the same month five years earlier.

If you’re looking for eggs at the national level, we’ve got that covered.

In 2024, Canadian egg farmers produced—or more precisely, hens laid—9.8 billion eggs that were sold for human consumption, with Ontario farmers producing over one-third (37.4%) of the national total. Quebec (19.9%) ranked a distant second, followed by British Columbia (11.8%).

Nova Scotia hens led in Atlantic Canada, accounting for almost half (45.5%) of all eggs laid in the region.

To put Canada’s egg production into perspective, farmers produced enough eggs to provide every person on Earth with one egg, with 1.5 billion to spare for those wanting seconds.

Happy Easter and happy egg hunting!