that was my thought! however, i took over the family farm and my grandpa wants brown eggs. he’s 92 years old and my hero...so as a slight joke i got dominant coppers to try to get the brownest eggs!
What’s the obsession over egg shell color obsession..? Chickens are different as eggs from different chickens are.. It's all about diet and happiness quotient.. Free range eating grass, bugs and weed seed makes whites stand on their own to dark yellow yoke.. and FLAVOR! Never loved eggs so much! Now mine are penned and farm store fed.. Who knows what's in the stuff.. Color just adds variety for the eyes.. Surely there is a difference in taste.. Tastes change with age.. and are less sensitive. We are force fed bland foods including industrial farm eggs, fish, pork and beef. Love lamb chops but hard to find and too expensive. Unless you live in a Jewish community. You won't find any.. Flavorless and less than desirable processed food. Sugar in abundance, too much salt or not enough.. add chemicals you can not pronounce and you have the modern diet. The best I ever consumed was a free range goose egg! Huge and the fork literally stood up in the yoke! Amazing! My dogs will eat anything I cook, except on occasion. They can't even stomach my cooking.. if I can't. That's why they get it. You should see their faces..
Have 30 plus chickens.. Can't count em' as they move around too much.. Just recieved 5 new ones from family.. Three have feathers on their feet, large and white with some black. They were free range but it's winter. The feather foot ones couldn't care less as they are fed and watered daily. One Barred Rock gives me the evil eye and moves away.. never seen that one. CRANKY! No white eggs so far as discribed. Chickens do not like change any more than I.. but it is winter. Had a green egg layer once, but the flock took her out.. Perhaps they were green with envy.. Farm store fed are no way as good as free range.. Try it you'll like it.. If you can. Live too close to the road now and chickens cross the road as cows find grass always greener on the other side of the fence.When I got my chickens in May of last year I got Easter eggers because I only wanted blue or green eggs. Why? I just think they are cool and pretty. Of my 3 hens only one of them is laying a green egg, the other 2 are brown layers! But after waiting sooo long for eggs I don’t care that color they are, I’m just happy to have eggs from my girls. And all of them taste delicious regardless of the shell color.
The most many of us can hope for is part-time free-ranging or supervised-only free-ranging in our backyards. Those that can't even manage that, can at least feed scrap veggies and/or fodder. Any of those are definitely better than commercial feed-only setups.
I agree it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The only difference in taste would be present if there was a difference in the breed of bird.
