Why are hens eggs brown?!
Why are hens eggs brown?
When I was young (30 odd years ago) hens eggs were white and it was unusual to get a brown one. These days they are all brown - why is that?
Answers:
The only reason for your lack of choice in egg color is that this is what the supplier is bringing to the store. The color of the egg is a matter of which chicken it came from. There's no difference in the egg itself.
Where I live there used to be a jingle on TV that said "Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh"
So as a kid, I thought the eggs we used at Easter must be 'stale' or left around long enough for the color to bleach out. Go figure.
I've heard about the color of the earlobe and also something about the comb color having to do with the egg color, but I never raised chickens so I don't know firsthand what is correct. But I know it is related to the breed of chicken.
White eggs are from white chickens and brown eggs come from brownish coloured chickens.
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.
The color of the shell has nothing to do with egg quality, nutritional value or flavor.
They are also like human. have races? They are of different spices!
Hens eggs can be brown and white but it depends entirely on the breed of the chicken. Oddly enough black chickens tend to lay white eggs.
I think the most common chicken is brown as they are the most prolific layers which is why they are more commonly sold.
The colour of the egg in no way detracts from the quality of the egg. My aunt is strange though. She will not eat a brown egg and though both are sold in her country of Latvia, she will only have white. Strange or what!
Just think where they come from.
What upferretmadferret said.
So what?
The pigment which makes the shell brown is the only difference between a white egg & a brown,it is all a matter of choice & preference.I know some places where brown eggs are more expensive that the white ones.
More chicken farmers are raising the dark breeds of chickens. Light colored chickens lay white eggs, dark colored chickens lay brown eggs, and Aracana chickens lay blue/green eggs.