Why are some chicken eggs brown while others are white?

Answer 1

Genetics. Some breeds can even produced eggs of other colors
The Araucanas & Ameraucanas breed both lay eggs of various shades of blue or green.
http://www.backyardchickens.com/breeds/americaunas.html.
http://www.vfr.net/~tbruce/facts.html

Three brown egg layers are Rhode Island Red, Plymouth Rock, New Hampshire. The White Leghorn is the primary white egg producer.
http://www.wvu.edu/~exten/infores/pubs/livepoul/pfs16.pdf

Answer 2

Hi Star,

I'm glad to read the REAL reason for the difference. My husband told me the brown eggs are from chickens in a local area, which makes no sense at all....lol

I have always used white eggs, that is what is available where I come from. I now live in a part of the country that has predomanently brown eggs. I think there is a huge difference in the two.

I find I have alot of trouble cracking open the brown eggs because the shell is harder and doesn't crack as 'even' as white shells. I also find that as far as frying brown eggs, the yolk is much more likely to break while cooking. I have never had this problem with white eggs. It took me awhile when I started using brown eggs to figure this out (I thought it was just me).

I buy white eggs in the store every chance I get, there just much easier to use in my opinion. And I settle on the brown eggs when I have to.

Have a good day!

Answer 3

The color of the egg matches the color of the chicken just as a white person has a white baby and a dark skinned person has a dark skinned baby. A white chicken produces white eggs and brown chickens produce brown eggs no difference in the product just color of skin.

Answer 4

The color difference is due to the specific breed of hen, according to the Egg Nutrition Center. Hens with white feathers and white earlobes will lay white eggs, whereas hens with red feathers and matching-colored earlobes give us brown eggs.

The difference between brown eggs and white eggs is purely cosmetic; it's just a matter of a baby taking after its mom.

Answer 5

funny you should ask, I asked this to a farmer that I know
& he said that all chicken eggs are brown, but since
white looks better they treat the eggs w/ something
to make them white

Answer 6

white eggs from white chickens and brown from brown chickens and the little black spots on the eggs are fly ****.

Answer 7

depends on what the chicken eats. factory eggs tend to be white because the hen gets all its food artificially. Hens that scratch up their own tend to lay brown eggs

Answer 8

I have always thought about this. I think this is something that has to do either with the type of the chicken itself or the type of nutrition offered to it. Or maybe it happens by luck, according the the will of mother nature.

Answer 9

same reason why some chickens are brown and some are white :)

Answer 10

It's according to breed of Hen's...There is one breed which lays Green eggs