Leghorn egg question

[jaimie44]

My husbands cousin and I are having a debate. HE says that a leghorns eggs will be brown if they are allowed to be free-range. I ordered leghorns just for the sole purpose of having some white eggs and I say this isnt true! Whos right and if he IS right can you explain why? TIA! Jaimie

 

[NYREDS]

I'm sure your husband's cousin is right about many things but this isn't one of them.

 

[jaimie44]

Oh thank you so much! Thats another VICTORY for me!!!! <<<doing the happy dance>>>!

 

[RubyMabelandPearl]

Yes, my Leghorn free ranges like crazy and her eggs are bright white

 

[HBuehler]

He must have been watching too much tv.The other morning we watched a segment on the myths and benefits of eggs...think it was the today show but not sure.. I learned something I never knew before...ready now? Put down the coffee
White eggs come from white feathered chickens and brown eggs from colored chickens

I went out and told my black Minorca's to get it together and make those eggs brown and my Rhode Island Whites to quit stealing the brown paint and lay those white eggs.
So wth are the green chickens?
Sadly,that "expert" makes more money than we do.
Now,colored leghorns like buff, red, mille fleur colors lay a lightly tinted egg it's not the bright white that the white leghorn lays but has nothing to do with them free ranging.The colored legs other than the brown doesn't lay as big as the white...often just a medium size egg-why we sold most of our colored legs here.

 

[spamee34]

Well the size of the egg I THINK has to do with age cause my EE lays the biggest egg in the coop and she is older much older she is 8 yrs and my rir's and slw and jg's are newbie's this is their first season to lay, their eggs are still small some that started laying first are just now up to that large size but only two or three so that's why I think size has to do with age.