Do your customers want white eggs?

[msgenie516]

Hi,

I give away excess eggs but some people (my daughter and myself, among a few others) prefer the white or green eggs for soft or hard boiling as we find they are much less likely to have blood/meat spots. This could be just because of the particular hens I have. Other than that, the brown eggs are definately the winners!

Genie

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

All my custumers enjoy the colored eggs. They LOVE the blue eggs I get from my EE.

 

[CARS]

While I don't have any trouble selling my brown eggs, people tend to freak out when they get a green one. 90% of my customers prefer white eggs. I think they just feel comfortable with what they have been seeing for 40 years.

 

[Kansaseq]

I only have brown, blue, and green chicken eggs. Only one person, a woman from Guatemala, requests only brown eggs (Juevos cafe) from me. Not sure if it's a cultural thing or what, but she's the only one.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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That's kind of strange...

We sell a lot of super jumbo, Grade A, brown eggs from our commercial flock. The folks that buy our eggs, want farm fresh, brown eggs. I go through the work to grade out the super jumbo eggs that we can't ship to the processing plant and package Grade A eggs of uniform color in new cartons with our farm name on them. Any Grade B eggs are packaged in used cartons and given to the local food pantry.

My wife even received some positive comments the other day about the quality of our eggs. She had started a small egg route. On the way to food pantry each week she started stopping at a few different businesses along the way to sell our good, Grade A eggs. Some of those businesses started taking weekly orders from their employees and are collecting the money in anticipation of my wife's stop there. My wife didn't make it to one of those businesses last week and they tried to contact her, but mistakenly called a different farm. Those folks brought them some eggs, but the business only realized that they had called the wrong farm when a different lady showed up. They said they were thoroughly disappointed in what they got. While I'm sure they were farm fresh eggs, I assume they were mixed grades of varying sizes, probably in crappy, used cartons. They were ranting and raving about our eggs and wanted my wife to keep coming back.

 

[Rocky Top Chick]

My customers get all sizes and all colors and never complain at all. They are just grateful for the fresh eggs. I LOVE my leghorns.

 

[Berritt]

I like a mix! I just bought 4 dozen eggs from white/cream, tan, dark brown, blue green and olive.

I like how they look in a carton all together.

I think whites are just as good to eat as the next ones.... funny why people prefer one over the other. The woman i bought the eggs from said whites show stains easily. So they might look "dirty".

 

[A.T. Hagan]

My customers prefer brown eggs generally.

But over time they've come to appreciate the varying mix of colors and will complain if they don't get their green or blue egg in every dozen.

I'm gradually settling on one green/blue, four white, and seven browns (varying shades) in every dozen aranged as artfully as the day's gathering will allow. Many folks get a kick out the spectrum.

All with the best shell quality I can offer.

.....Alan.

 

[Dora'smom]

I don't sell many eggs, but did sell a few dozen at work recently. People were very appreciative of the different shades of brown, the green, pink, etc. They really enjoyed those colors.

 

[chicken nanny]

Can anyone tell me which chickens lay the very large eggs? I have RIRS which layed all winter ....But would like some bigger eggs also. Thank You all...