Will My Pullets Lay In Winter?

[EggSighted4Life]

Their cloaca!
If all chickens in the same flock eat the same diet, their eggs will all taste exactly the same regardless of the shell color.
Shell color is breed specific, taste and yolk color is dependent on diet.
I always get the question when people see some of my dark eggs - "What do they taste like?" I say they taste just like the white ones from my own birds.
ETA
A variety of shell colors certainly do make for a pretty egg basket or egg carton.

Oh gosh.. about 15 years back my hubby brought home some farm fresh, not white eggs. And I was scared to touch them, never tasted a single one!

Are you kidding me?! Now I can't believe how COOL it is to get a white egg, which I don't currently have. But WOW, can it ever really set off the colors in the egg basket/carton and become a wonderful part of the display!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's what I thought. I've never even eaten a brown egg, I have only had white store eggs.

The elderly woman who owns a produce market near me grew up on a farm with brown egg layers. She said how much better they taste than white eggs. I tried to explain that the white eggs she had eaten were commercially produced store eggs and her family's eggs tasted better because of their diet. She was convinced it was the shell color. At the time, I had white, cream, brown, maroon and green eggs. I told her I would bring her one of each so she could see they all tasted the same because they all ate the same things. She actually got irate with me because she didn't want her long held beliefs to be challenged.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I don't care what color they lay, blue, green, or pink all sound amazing to me

I have gotten pinker eggs from Orpington, Rock, and peach with light polka dots from a cochin, than my EE. And those shades can vary throughout the lay cycle. So it could look pinkish one day and more brown the next even from the same hen.

Either way, I can tell you will really enjoy getting them. Not knowing is part of the fun!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Are you kidding me?! Now I can't believe how COOL it is to get a white egg, which I don't currently have. But WOW, can it ever really set off the colors in the egg basket/carton and become a wonderful part of the display!

That's so true. After growing up with white leghorns, as an adult I had light brown egg layers, Orps, JGs and Rocks.
I decided I wanted white eggs to enhance the egg basket/cartons.
I got Anconas, White Minorcas, Black Leghorns ad Jaerhons.
At the same time I got Welsummers and Ameraucanas.
What a pretty basket that turned out to be. I took them to a family Easter celebration and I showed that I didn't need to color eggs. Wife's niece asked if they were safe to eat. I said, why not? She said, well some are green.
The Welsummer eggs drove me to find Penedesencas - which is the only thing I raise any more.