Why do brown eggs cost more than white eggs? (taste, salt, better)

[Brave New World]

The US washes eggs therefore the shell is damaged and they must be refrigerated.

In the UK and Europe most hen eggs are brown, and the emphasis is on good farming techinques and healthy hens rather than egg sanitation.

As a result there is a significant different between US and UK/European eggs.

Why English Eggs Are Way Different From American Ones | HuffPost

You could also throw in to the mix free range and organic eggs which are increasingly popular and are often very different to mass produced intensive farmed eggs and this applies to both sides of the Atlantic. Free Range Organic Eggs tend to be ore expebsive than their mass produced counterparts.

[glass_of_merlot]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

We have 7 hens, three lay cream color eggs, 3 lay darkish brown eggs and one is pretending to be a rooster and doesn't lay at all

Awww...i,hope you told your wanna be rooster you love her/him no matter what!!

[glass_of_merlot]

Originally Posted by MillennialUrbanist

How can a rooster lay eggs? It's biologically impossible . Either you were thinking something else while you typed this sentence or I'm misreading it entirely.

Lol!!!

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by kokonutty

Only the ones at the Ivy League school there.

I hear they lay golden eggs at Brown University.

[shiver916]

I remember the local brown egg jingle well. I get some fresh from my neighbor when he has an abundance, usually greenish, light blue eggs and some cream colored. The "farm" where my uncle goes for some reason has a high % of double yokes when we get eggs from him. I'd say at least 1 egg per 2 dz is a double. Although the other day we had a blank egg, all "white" no yoke. Never seen one of those before.

[Nurse Bishop]

This is what my hens lay.



The big ones are emu eggs.

[Nurse Bishop]

And here are some hens. They like to rest like this for some reason. ( I only keep th rooster because the hens like him).

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by Steve McDonald

Most commercial white eggs are produced by hens of the Starlight Leghorn variety. They were developed to produce more eggs for the amount of feed consumed and to lay more during their careers. Many of them lay an egg almost every day, for 18 months, when their production begins to wane and they are turned into the little chunks found in chicken soup. Not a very good retirement plan, from a chicken's point of view.

There was a time when all eggs sold in stores were brown and when white eggs first appeared, they were regarded as an oddity. Rumors abounded that they were deficient in nutrients and that angle is still played subtlety to an advantage, by those who sell the brown ones.

Where I'm from in New England, white eggs back in the 1960's only ever were around in stores at Easter for making Easter eggs. The local eggs were all brown and everybody bought brown. Now with gigantic egg farms, mass market grocery store eggs are all white. The locally produced ones you find at CSA farmstands are pretty much always brown. I confess to mostly shopping on price and buying white eggs from gulag chickens. I really should be buying local to prop up the local CSA around me.

I learned something in this thread. I had no clue what the breed was that is used in the giant egg farms.

This Penn State Ag School article is an interesting quick read on the topic: https://extension.psu.edu/modern-egg-industry

[littlelou]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

We have 7 hens, three lay cream color eggs, 3 lay darkish brown eggs and one is pretending to be a rooster and doesn't lay at all

sounds to me like # 7 needs to be introduced to a large roasting pan!!

[loves2read]

My sister used to have chicken and Guinea hens on her place north of San Antonio
She had nice sideline in selling eggs
Many people really wanted the Guinea hen eggs and they were very colorful