What’s the obsession over egg shell color?

[humblehillsfarm]

I personally love having a rainbow basket. I’m always excited to see who laid which egg, and they are all so lovely.

Unfortunately I’ve never had ALL of the colors being laid in the same time frame. Hopefully one day!

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".

Yes! I had someone who stopped buying eggs from me after accusing me of selling him store bought eggs. They were from ex-bat leghorns.

 

[wf1992]

Colored eggs make me happy

And like many others, like being able to tell who laid what. My colored layers can't compete with my ISA's production tho, which is why I try and keep half fun chickens and half working girls. I swear, I really am trying...

And OMG, now I need an egg spiral!

 

[Abriana]

I think it’s just some crazy myth, there’s really no nutritional value difference between egg colors. Personally I don’t care what color eggs I get, but I LOVE the green, blue, and dark reddish eggs. They make such a pretty egg basket.

 

[Hermits Garden]

...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 agree! When trying to decide what breed/s to raise, I told myself I didn't care--and essentially I don't--about egg color. But if one of the breeds layed blue eggs, then off I'd go down the rabbit hole, trying to add other color-laying breeds so the egg basket would be "colorful".

In the end? Brabanters. White eggs.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I agree! When trying to decide what breed/s to raise, I told myself I didn't care--and essentially I don't--about egg color. But if one of the breeds layed blue eggs, then off I'd go down the rabbit hole, trying to add other color-laying breeds so the egg basket would be "colorful".

In the end? Brabanters. White eggs.

I’ve fallen deep into the rabbit hole! I’ve got EEs, an Americauna, welsummer, barred rock, Marans, Olive eggers, heritage leghorns, Polish, brahmas, and a couple mutts that’s should laid a light brown or very light olive/green eggs. I hope to breed more Marans, and my own F1 and F2 olive eggers. I want so badly to get an Americauna rooster to keep the blue line going too, but it’s just too much.

 

[0die]

...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?

To the OPs original question...

Like many things in life...perception is reality.

It's really very simple...

For so long the over whelming choice in grocery stores was white eggs. "white" eggs have become ingrained in our collective minds as "white bread", "factory farmed", "big business", Big farm", "GMO", "processed", "unnatural", "pasteurized", "boring", etc.

Brown/colored eggs because of their general "rarity" in modern (post industrial/post WW2) times grocery stores and recent popularity of "fashionable" healthy trends are now perceived as "whole grain bread", "raw", "organic", "natural", "healthy", "wild", unprocessed", "country", "hand raised", "flavorful", "bohemian", "hip", etc, etc...

 

[Cazook]

Different colours are fun. Here you can only get light brown eggs in the shops, though a couple of supermarkets have started selling speciality chocolate and blue eggs. White eggs are a fun novelty to me! I always associated that colour with duck eggs until I had chickens.

 

[nuthatched]

If I had hens thst layed dark brown, blue, green, olive and pink, I could charge more.
At the farmers market, one lady puts are her fun colored eggs in one carton, she charges $6 a dozen and people buy it for the pretty colors. People are stupid.

 

[Newyorkrita]

If I had hens thst layed dark brown, blue, green, olive and pink, I could charge more.
At the farmers market, one lady puts are her fun colored eggs in one carton, she charges $6 a dozen and people buy it for the pretty colors. People are stupid.

I don't think it is stupid to buy it for the pretty colors. I know it doesn't matter taste wise but it it looks so pretty it is worth some extra money.

 

[Newyorkrita]

If I had hens thst layed dark brown, blue, green, olive and pink, I could charge more.
At the farmers market, one lady puts are her fun colored eggs in one carton, she charges $6 a dozen and people buy it for the pretty colors. People are stupid.

I don't think it is stupid to buy it for the pretty colors. I know it doesn't matter taste wise but it it looks so pretty it is worth some extra money.