Do leghorn eggs taste different than hamburg eggs?

[chickencoop789]

A family member of mine wont let me have silver spangled hamburg chickens unless I find out if their eggs taste the same as leghorn eggs. I said that they are eggs and they wont taste different but he still wanted me to ask. So do they taste the same?

 

[speckledhen]

Eggs are eggs. If the chickens are raised on good feed, better yet some nice greens or yellow veggies, maybe even free ranging, they'll be even "eggier" than grocery store eggs, but breed makes no difference in eggs.

 

[Vermont Lass]

I have a leghorn hen and her eggs taste different than the brown layers. I thought that it was my imagination, but, no. I ate two leghorn eggs tonight and they tasted different from the brown ones, just like I had noticed before. We've been raising chickens for their eggs for over 20 years and I can taste the difference between free range, and caged.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I have a leghorn hen and her eggs taste different than the brown layers. I thought that it was my imagination, but, no. I ate two leghorn eggs tonight and they tasted different from the brown ones, just like I had noticed before. We've been raising chickens for their eggs for over 20 years and I can taste the difference between free range, and caged.

I imagine one might be able to taste the difference between the eggs of chickens that free range and those of hens kept confined and fed only commercial feed. I can certainly see as well as taste the difference between the eggs of my backyard chickens and those of commercial hens, as for example when I eat eggs at a restaurant.

We have a laying flock of 16 hens of about 8 different breeds, and they free range part of the day. We've never noticed a difference in the taste of any of their eggs although we don't have Leghorns.

I wonder if a person could taste the difference in brown and white eggs if they did not KNOW what they were being served.

 

[kattabelly]

I guess it's theoretically possible that the average amount of yolk, albumen, or other trace components could vary slightly between eggs laid by different breeds of chicken. Possibly that would be enough for some "super tasters" to tell the difference? Behaviour could also be a factor, if you kept one breed that took advantage of being fully free range and foraged a significant part of their diet and another breed that didn't like to wander far and ate a much higher proportion of commercial feed.

(Just wondering aloud in the hope someone else will see if there's any relevant studies, so I don't have to )

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I can taste the difference between my eggs, the eggs I buy at the farmer’s market and store bought eggs. But that’s because mine are truly free-range so they eat way more than crumble. I can’t tell the difference between a BCM egg and an EE egg or any other chicken I have…