Why do chickens lay brown eggs.?

Question

Organically raised and free range raised chickens lay eggs that the egg shell color is only brown; whereas non-organically and non-free range raised chickens lay eggs that the egg shell is either white or brown..
Why is that?

Answer 1

White Leghorn chickens are white and lay white eggs. Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire and Plymouth Rock chickens are all reddish brown and lay brown or brown-speckled eggs.

Let's get weird for a second and pretend you have a chicken sitting beside you. Imagine this crazy chicken is kind of an off-white brownish yellow. You're no chicken expert and you have no idea what breed you're looking at. Here's the secret to predicting the color of eggs a chicken will lay: look at their earlobes. This is true stuff. The pigments in the outer layer of the eggshell will always approximate the color of the earlobe of the chicken that laid the egg.

A natural follow-up question would be "Is one color of egg healthier than the other?" According to the Egg Nutrition Center in Washington, D.C., the answer is a pretty firm "no". The color of the shell has nothing to do with egg quality, nutritional value or flavor. They say the reason brown eggs cost more is because the brown-egg variety of chickens are bigger eaters and cost more to feed. The cost is then pushed forward to the consumer. I happen to believe the real reason is that the health food industry is perpetuating the myth that brown eggs are healthier. There, I said it. Its because of the type of chicken. White eggs come from white chickens and brown eggs come from brown-ish chickens. Most of the eggs in your supermarket come from the following breeds of chickens: the White Leghorn, the Rhode Island Red, the New Hampshire, and the Plymouth Rock.brown eggs or
white eggs come from different type, breeds of chickens..and different locations in the country..
they are no different for substance or protein to nutritional value they are all the same.
good luck. i guess different birds have different egg colors (when they hatch the eggs). Martha Stewart broke it down one day.

Answer 2

Brown chickens lay brown, white chickens lay white eggs. If u want a blue egg u have to paint it.

Answer 3

The colour of the egg is just the colour the chicken will be. And there are white organic eggs...

Answer 4

I once had a chicken that started laying a very light green eggs. Now thats weird.

Answer 5

The eggs are doctored to be uniform in colour.

Answer 6

the food they eat or they fed with can regulate the egg color

Answer 7

Not all chickens are the same -- silly goose.

Answer 8

they dont people paint them that color.

Answer 9

i think it's natural