Where do brown eggs come from, do they taste better?!

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Good question. Now, let me ask you a question: If you had a baby, what color would it be?

I'm not a magician. I don't know your ethnicity. But I can safely assume that your kid is going to have a skin tone similar to your own (interracial unions aside for the moment).

The same is true in the chicken world. White eggs come from white chickens and brown eggs come from brown-ish chickens. Most of the eggs in your supermarket come from the following breeds of chickens: the White Leghorn, the Rhode Island Red, the New Hampshire, and the Plymouth Rock.

White Leghorn chickens are white and lay white eggs. Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire and Plymouth Rock chickens are all reddish brown and lay brown or brown-speckled eggs.

Let's get weird for a second and pretend you have a chicken sitting beside you. Imagine this crazy chicken is kind of an off-white brownish yellow. You're no chicken expert and you have no idea what breed you're looking at. Here's the secret to predicting the color of eggs a chicken will lay: look at their earlobes. This is true stuff. The pigments in the outer layer of the eggshell will always approximate the color of the earlobe of the chicken that laid the egg.

A natural follow-up question would be "Is one color of egg healthier than the other?" According to the Egg Nutrition Center in Washington, D.C., the answer is a pretty firm "no". The color of the shell has nothing to do with egg quality, nutritional value or flavor. They say the reason brown eggs cost more is because the brown-egg variety of chickens are bigger eaters and cost more to feed. The cost is then pushed forward to the consumer. I happen to believe the real reason is that the health food industry is perpetuating the myth that brown eggs are healthier.

http://www.mrbreakfast.com/ask.asp?askid…

Color of the chicken does NOT determine the color of the egg. Ever see a green chicken or a blue chicken? Well there are green and blue eggs from auracana chickens.
IT is the BREED of chicken that determines the color of the egg, not the color of its feathers.
you don't get brown babies or red babies from people with brown hair or red hair, do you??

Brown eggs and white eggs are identical in every way.
The second link I provided is actually the most interesting as it lists many breeds of chicken and what color eggs they lay.

As to flavor, if all else is equal, there is no taste difference.
If the brown egg came from the store and the white egg came from a farm where the chickens are free range, the white egg would taste better.

http://www.wisegeek.com/why-are-chicken-…
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/c…

There's no real difference in the taste of brown eggs v. white eggs, though I always use brown eggs simply b/c the yolks seem to be harder to break and I prefer my eggs over-easy.

Brown eggs are simply preferred by restaurants because they can find bits of egg shell faster in dishes being made...the brown shell shows up better when lost in the mix.

Brown eggs come from a certain breed of chickens.They are the same as white eggs only a different color. What effects tasts in eggs is how they are fed....Corn fed ..free range chickens produce a superior egg as opposed to caged hens with little room to move and a diet of commercial feed. Please buy cage free eggs or range hen eggs to get the best nutrition for you and also helps support humane treatment for one of our best food sources....Thanks for this question...Joanie

Brown eggs come from certain breeds of chickens. They are no different than white eggs. The quality of an egg is a different matter though. I only buy eggs that come from chickens that are fed a whole grain natural diet and those eggs do taste better

where i come from, all chicken eggs sold are brown.
maybe only a small percentage are white, though it is hard to find white ones.
brown eggs are yum.duno about white ones?

Also chickens, just slightly different breeds. Taste-wise, I've never been able to notice a difference.

Egg colour comes from what they eat! No difference in taste.