Pet Peeve - "I want ONLY brown eggs"

[Heckel's Hens]

Just bleach them.

Some folks believe white eggs are bleached, so try that!

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

My kids will SWEAR up and down that brown eggs taste better than white eggs.

We only have brown egg chickens however. No white egg chickens. So they think white eggs = store eggs = icky. Brown eggs = home = yummy.

 

[ellbell19]

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What's your trick?

 

[quintinp]

this year i saw my old seventh grade english teacher, i am not in seventh grade anymore, but she said she loves BROWN egg so much more than white eggs, because the yolk is SOO much RICHER blah blah blah

 

[emmalynn]

I charge more for green/blue eggs and I have one person that only wants "little" eggs. She gets a dozen bantam eggs a week but she gets them for free....she is my grandma..

 

[Momagain1]

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What's your trick?

Yes, please do tell...I'm going to have 25+ layers a day...I need to move my eggs once I get them laying!

 

[sune42]

For what it's worth, I read something once, and I am just summarizing because I don't remember exact wording or source, although it's a legit one I am sure, mostly true for the east coast, but I assume other places as well. Perhaps there are a lot of cold hardy brown egg layers?

White commercial (read leghorn) eggs were trucked in, while local farms tended to have brown egg layers (again, cold hardy? what color does a RIR lay?) so people associated white eggs with a lack of taste because, and I am sure we can all agree on this, they were not as fresh due to being shipped in from elsewhere. Where as brown eggs came from local farms, (read fresher) and therefore had a better taste.

I think this "wisdom" has been passed down that brown eggs are better tasting, and that's where people get that brown eggs are better, or really "fresh from the farm" as opposed to white eggs.

 

[redhen]

Ever hear the jingle..
"brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh!"

If it were me..i'd just give the customers what they wanted...
if you know some folks only want brown eggs.... make up a few cartons to have handy for them. Easy .. and you have happy customers..

 

[Tala]

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My brown eggs DO have thicker shells than my Leghorn eggs. They all eat the same stuff too. I think it has to do with the breed. Marans are notorious for having really thick shells, and theirs are the thickest, but my Barred Rocks also lay thicker shells than my White Leghorn girls.

When I got eggs from the store we always got the more expensive brown (cage free I think they were) because I really did think they tasted better and they had thicker shells than your regular white eggs --- but with them they were a different company than the "plain WalMart white eggs" so I'm pretty sure it was a difference in their feed. With my own hens I know they all eat the same stuff. Nowadays I forget that other people buy eggs at the store - I haven't gone to that aisle in almost 2 years

I like the multi-colors in the carton. I think they're sooooo pretty! But I've never had any customers ask for certain colors or tell me that they tasted any different.
ETA: I wonder what they would think about THIS egg???
lol it came from one of my Barred Rocks - extra calcium deposits on the shell I think (and yes that's a dog hair in the pic

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[annaraven]

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What's funny is that I can tell the difference in the eggs (especially the yolks) of my different girls. My BO lays eggs with great whites and nice but not exceptional yolks. The Welsummer eggs have huge, exceptionally rich yolks. My Light Brown Leghorn (when she's laying) has great yolks as well, but different from the Wellies, smaller, more compact but rich yolks. So yeah - I wonder if the different breeds forage differently - thus producing different tasting eggs.

You're probably right that your customers are idiots but I do think there's something different about the eggs produced by my various chickens, even though they have access to the same feed and the same forage.

ETA: Note that this is for eggs pulled out of the nest and cooked a short time later that same day. There are differences in the egg yolks and whites of my chickens - it's not a white egg/brown egg thing but there are breed differences.