What’s the obsession over egg shell color?

[EmmaRainboe]

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Songster
12 Years
In the early part of the 20th century, US egg production began to shift from brown-egg layers to white. By mid-century, consumer preference was strongly on the side of white, white, white.

Selective breeding has gone both ways with more efficient layers developed for either color. But, greater emphasis was placed on white egg shells.

We seem to now be in something of a change with an idea growing in the consumer's mind that brown eggs are more wholesome or fresh. The commercial flocks of brown-egg layers must be growing to meet that increasing interest.

It is interesting to see how breeds and hybrids have waxed and waned in their popularity. A lot of that has been a result of nothing more than the color of their egg shell.

I'm personally on a campaign for the creamegg shell layers

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Steve

I think I found it https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/why-are-most-commercial-eggs-white.163667/#post-1973435

 

[21hens-incharge]

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Songster
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In the early part of the 20th century, US egg production began to shift from brown-egg layers to white. By mid-century, consumer preference was strongly on the side of white, white, white.

Selective breeding has gone both ways with more efficient layers developed for either color. But, greater emphasis was placed on white egg shells.

We seem to now be in something of a change with an idea growing in the consumer's mind that brown eggs are more wholesome or fresh. The commercial flocks of brown-egg layers must be growing to meet that increasing interest.

It is interesting to see how breeds and hybrids have waxed and waned in their popularity. A lot of that has been a result of nothing more than the color of their egg shell.

I'm personally on a campaign for the creamegg shell layers

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Steve

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[BleuSaphir]

I think it the obsession of color eggs for the novelty of having blue, green, dark brown. You name it.

 

[rosemarythyme]

One extra thing I like about having a mixed colored flock (and a mixed batch of egg colors) is that it makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot any issues if you run into any. Since I can ID which bird lays which eggs, when I have thin eggshells, for example, it makes it super easy to supplement the bird that needs it without affecting the others.

And yes I like looking in the fridge and seeing all the different shapes and colors and sizes, just as I like looking at the run and seeing all the different colors of chickens.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It all comes down to looks, they all taste the same. But a lot of people love having a rainbow basket, it can give each egg its own personality (sounds stupid I know) in reality there is no difference. So if you don't care about having a rainbow basket then there is no reason to have multiple colors. It can just make an egg basket look so much more fun.

I love having a colorful egg basket! and you can always tell what hen has been eating the good stuff or whatever because some of their yolks will be darker than their flock mates or whatever so that’s always fun too!! But yeah, they all taste the same LOL

Well, I’m sure there’s minor differences based on what they eat and of course fresh eggs taste way better than store eggs, but if they’re all eating the same thing and ranging in the same area (if they range) then they should all taste basically the same.

Some people are weird about color though!! My dad hates the white eggs from the store! And honestly they do always seem to have way thinner shells than the brown ones!! But yet we love the white eggs from our girls and the shells are super thick so idk lol

I once read about someone who saw green eggs and asked if they were moldy.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I love having a colorful egg basket! and you can always tell what hen has been eating the good stuff or whatever because some of their yolks will be darker than their flock mates or whatever so that’s always fun too!! But yeah, they all taste the same LOL

Well, I’m sure there’s minor differences based on what they eat and of course fresh eggs taste way better than store eggs, but if they’re all eating the same thing and ranging in the same area (if they range) then they should all taste basically the same.

Some people are weird about color though!! My dad hates the white eggs from the store! And honestly they do always seem to have way thinner shells than the brown ones!! But yet we love the white eggs from our girls and the shells are super thick so idk lol

I once read about someone who saw green eggs and asked if they were moldy.

I tell people the green ones aren’t ripe yet

 

[ShrekDawg]

who said it was an obsession?

Some of the preference for one color over the other comes down to marketing, for instance over the years brown eggs have been marketed as more natural or more fresh by local producers who were competing with larger white egg producers.

So that message persists with many people, but even people that are “obsessed” with healthy food choices repeat a lot of misinformation that someone along the way has “sold” them on

Some of it is regional, some parts of the world use different breeds of chickens for egg production and that egg color is seen as “normal” while other places have a different “normal” or no “normal”

Speaking personally, my wife thinks the blue or green or pinkish eggs are pretty so that is what we have... but I find it makes the chore of collecting and cleaning the eggs a bit more interesting.

I have noticed that among non-chicken people that we’ve given eggs to, they generally don’t care one way or another about the color of the eggs... but many do seem more “obsessed” over the egg size... even with free eggs

I usually try to give people the biggest, best eggs maybe stupid for free but I always feel bad giving them small eggs LOL though I do usually include somewhat of a mix of sizes. Just not usually the tiny ones lol

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I once read about someone who saw green eggs and asked if they were moldy.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I tell people the green ones aren’t ripe yet

DEAD

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I tell people the green ones aren’t ripe yet