What’s the obsession over egg shell color?

[ShrekDawg]

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[Candace Longan]

I have a question. Anybody who has white egg layers and sells their eggs ever have anybody question if you were selling them store bought eggs? I only have brown layers so never thought about it. I could see a naive person assuming that white eggs only come from commercial sources and questioning if they ever came "farm fresh".

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

I have a question. Anybody who has white egg layers and sells their eggs ever have anybody question if you were selling them store bought eggs? I only have brown layers so never thought about it. I could see a naive person assuming that white eggs only come from commercial sources and questioning if they ever came "farm fresh".

Not with white eggs. I have only had one comment and it was about some of the brown eggs that were in someone’s dozen. They for a half a second thought they were store bought eggs due to the size. But my Wheaten Maran has been laying huge eggs lately.

 

[black_cat]

I haven't read through the thread, but I just think that all the colors look pretty. No real reason other than that

 

[black_cat]

I have a question. Anybody who has white egg layers and sells their eggs ever have anybody question if you were selling them store bought eggs? I only have brown layers so never thought about it. I could see a naive person assuming that white eggs only come from commercial sources and questioning if they ever came "farm fresh".

We don't sell ours, but when we give them away, nobody questions it. Ours are larger than most store eggs, though.

 

[black_cat]

Not with white eggs. I have only had one comment and it was about some of the brown eggs that were in someone’s dozen. They for a half a second thought they were store bought eggs due to the size. But my Wheaten Maran has been laying huge eggs lately.

I don't know if I've told you this but your profile pic is ADORABLE

 

[FinallyChickens2011]

...don’t they all taste the same?

growing up...i am 41...we always had brown eggs and that was “weird” to my friends. they would question eating an egg that had a brown shell...now it’s common place in the grocery store as if it’s better than a white egg.

What’s the obsession over egg shell color?

I think brown these days is marketed as more "natural" like unbleached vs. bleached flour. But we chicken people know it just has to do with the breed.

I remember back in the day on Little House on the Prairie, Caroline Ingalls was trying to sell her eggs to Mrs. Oleson and she didn't want them because they were brown and not white. Mrs. Oleson needed to do a little homework... Caroline's eggs were probably the tastiest because their farm was full of LOVE and their chickens were probably the happiest in Walnut Grove!!

 

[mhoney6943]

So yes or no? Are your color-egg layers good producers?

Mine lay just as many if not more than my brown egg layers. Mine lay blue and green.

 

[black_cat]

I think brown these days is marketed as more "natural" like unbleached vs. bleached flour. But we chicken people know it just has to do with the breed.

I remember back in the day on Little House on the Prairie, Caroline Ingalls was trying to sell her eggs to Mrs. Oleson and she didn't want them because they were brown and not white. Mrs. Oleson needed to do a little homework... Caroline's eggs were probably the tastiest because their farm was full of LOVE and their chickens were probably the happiest in Walnut Grove!!

I used to love reading Little House on the Prairie, and all the Little House books. I don't remember the stuff about eggs, unfortunately. I wasn't trained to pick out chicken things like I am now.

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

I don't know if I've told you this but your profile pic is ADORABLE

Aw thanks! She’s my personal nervous wreck