Now explain how this happens!!

[sillysparrowness]

Why do your customers want brown eggs? Coulour doesn't really matter, does it? And at least, white eggs are nicer to paint and dye at easter!

 

[7L Farm]

Quote:
You don't know that brown eggs taste better. Just kidding but thats how people think.

 

[greenSearcher]

Could it be heat stress related? It is beastly today, and tomorrow is supposed to be worse.

and I have lost 2 today due to heat. High was 109, feels like a convection oven out there. I refreshed the wading pools and wet everything down again, but they are just miserable and I can't do much else to cool it off. This weather breaks my heart.

 

[zookeeper15133]

v.cyr :

one of my hens lays white or nearly white eggs from time to time(my hens are BO and BR X BO crosses, and one black giant)... I just learned that the brown color on eggs isn't actually the shell but a pigment deposited on the outside, that can be buffed off(might be common knowledge to some, but I am still learning)... maybe there is some thing that could prevent the pigment from getting deposited on the egg?

Thanks! I didn't know that. Once I added vinegar to my water to hard boil some eggs. One of my dark brown eggs, the color just wiped off! Now I know why.​

 

[mybeckfarm]

Weird. My hens have yet to lay their first eggs but at least now I know a little about the colored vs white eggs and that the color can change over time.

~Yolanda

*mybeckfarm*

 

[duckinnut]

Maybe she is carrying on with the Easter Bunny out in the back pasture!!

 

[7L Farm]

She layed another white egg 5 in a row. Will they ever be brown again?

 

[remuda1]

Darn!! I just KNEW it was going to be a prank! Oh well

. In the pic of the eggs in the carton, that egg looks much larger than the others or is that a trick of the angle? You have to admit...... That would've been a pretty funny gag

 

[ladyride]

Quote:

to funny

 

[choidle]

Below is a link to an article from the Extension staff of the University of Florida concerning the subject matter. The article provides educated insight about the loss of shell pigment (color) in brown eggs. Hope this helps.



http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vm047