Why are eggs always brown, we don't get white eggs anymore in uk?!
Answers: I think they dye them, what do you think!
Many years ago (showing my age now)....brown eggs were far more expensive. They were thought to be better for you.
In fact it was what was being fed to the chickens that created the brown shell. It had nothing to do with the fact that they were better for you.
These days it still is to do with the way the chickens are fed still.....hence the non-white eggs. xXx
just comes from a diffrent type of chicken theres no diffence other than color in the egg though
Actually, Chemicals are put into them to change the color of them and make them bigger and make them last longer. DON'T WORRY! It's not deadly! But it's not worth it, and people have gotten used to white eggs; what would urban folks do if all the eggs in the stores were brown?
There is absolutely no difference in the eggs -- just the color of the shell.
The colour of the shell is 100% dependant on the breed of chicken. Some breeds even lay green, pink, and blue shelled eggs. The egg inside is identical regardless. UK consumers obviously prefer brown eggs, so they get what the seek. In the U.S. it's mostly white eggs. Different market.
David: I would have done this more discreetly but you don't accept emails. It's not really the colour of the hen that decides the shell colour, it's the breed. By chance most commercial white eggs do come from White Leghorns, but other (coloured) breeds also lay white eggs, including some that are almost black. Brown is more common however, and White Orpingtons lay brown eggs. If anyone is really interested in this, the Murray McMurray website lists a wide variety of breeds and states the colour of eggs that they lay.
I am a former chef and the last fellow and some of the others are correct, it is a simple case of brown hens lay brown egs and white lay white, feed only has an effect on the colour of the yolks, I have seen episodes of the Nigella Lawson series and when she cracks an egg the yolks are almost orange, here in North America, they are no more than a pale yellow, here they feed the hens corn, flax and a vegetable soya mix, it is like butter, the cream from the cows determines the colour of the butter.