What breed of chicken produces the best eggs

[geebs]

Best looking... and Martha Stewart says best tasting (however she calls them maran not marans) My vote is Black Copper Marans for the big thrill in the coup... So fun to find those dark red jewels. They don't lay everyday so it leaves ya wanting more...(gotta go.... there may be jewels in the henhouse)

 

[TerriLaChicks]

My Mom insists that the eggs from my Welsummers taste "creamier" than the others--I think she just likes the dark color of them best!

 

[ole red]

i've had free range chickens at least 40 years, and i want to pass on something i've noticed.

chickens that free range in a cow pasture, w/ plenty of cow manure to scratch and eat, will by far, have the darkess egg yolks.

my chickens when i was growing up scrathed in cow piles, and those egg yolks were so brite orange, went a few years w/out cows and the yolks lightened up a little.

when i got married we lived in a cow pasture, man those yolks really brightened up again.

now i still live in a pasture, but w/ horses, instead of cows, my egg yolks, are not near as dark, as my neighbors (1/4 mile away) and he has cows, we both feed the same feed. corn, wheat, & rice.

the only difference is his chickens spend the day scrating in cow piles in stead of horse piles, yup need to git me a few cows again.