What’s the obsession over egg shell color?

[Aapomp831]

No shrugging necessary.. I enjoyed it. You made my day.. no thing personal.. Carry on!

Lol, I know! Not taken personally. It’s definitely funny

 

[Stephanie8806]

That is what I figure. It has to be something in their feed.

Whatever it is it is very unpleasant to be in extreme pain from eating a stupid egg.

I know I’m late on this, but my husband has bad reactions to commercial eggs... stomach aches, nausea, and scalp psoriasis. We found out that he wasn’t reacting to the eggs themselves, but rather to eggs that came from chickens that consumed feed with corn and soy... so pretty much everything out there

We feed our chickens Scratch and Pecks corn and soy free organic feed, along with free ranging. Zero problems for my husband! He’s ecstatic.

 

[illinoishiker]

A colorful basket is just so much fun. I crossed my Ameraucana roo with Welsomers and now have a couple of olive eggers adding a dark olive and a lighter olive egg to my basket. Just love it and customers enjoy the colorful cartons of eggs. Blues, greens, browns, dark browns with speckles.

 

[Beer can]

I don't eat the shells so color has no significance.

 

[Carson213]

great comments and valid points. mixed flock seems easiest to track eggs. all of my flock are dominant coppers...just clipped their wings and banded them tonight...i don’t think i’ll get all of the same kind next time...but live and learn. growing up we always had 25+ of the same kind. i’ve learned a lot from you guys!

 

[Amy Brock]

When I was little there was a saying or a commercial of some sort that sang" brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh" insinuating all others were not. anyone around the ages of baby boomers to probably people in their thirties remember this, in my area anyway I love my colorful eggs for no other reason except for they change every day and I like to try to figure out which one of my girls they came from

 

[JacinLarkwell]

It's nice being able to at least get an idea of who layed. My naked necks all lay the same color, my spitz and Japanese are pretty close, but then I know to watch that group instead of the entire flock if something is up

 

[Bound to Sea]

A colorful basket is just so much fun. I crossed my Ameraucana roo with Welsomers and now have a couple of olive eggers adding a dark olive and a lighter olive egg to my basket. Just love it and customers enjoy the colorful cartons of eggs. Blues, greens, browns, dark browns with speckles.

 

[Newyorkrita]

great comments and valid points. mixed flock seems easiest to track eggs. all of my flock are dominant coppers...just clipped their wings and banded them tonight...i don’t think i’ll get all of the same kind next time...but live and learn. growing up we always had 25+ of the same kind. i’ve learned a lot from you guys!

But they should lay really nice darkish eggs.

 

[the old rooster]

Just a guess on my end, brown shelled eggs are kinda "newer" in the mainstream, I think they started coming out around the same time that like better quality eggs (free range, grass fed etc) did, so I think people associate them? I think it might also be like "well they're brown so they're different and better"?

I mean you're right, a store bought egg is gonna taste like a store bought egg, all are trash in comparison to what you get from your own hens, why people are egg snobs between white n brown at stores I'm not sure, hopefully they taste a farm fresh egg one day though!

Could be that the White eggs were from all year layers, thus commercial raisers used them and they are easier to tell if they are clean by visual inspection , all attributes that make the job easier ( just my thoughts and observations)