do white chickhens lay white eggs and brown chickhens lay brown eggs? why are some eggs browner than others?

Answer 1

I agree entirely with 'sid's' answer, after all there are some poultry breeds which lay bluish or even green coloured shelled eggs and I've never seen an all over blue or green feathered chicken. The actual quality of the shell is determined by the bird having sufficient bodily resources to coat the yolk as it passes through the body and can deteriorate with age so they become thin, wrinkly or misshapen, the depth of colour in the yolk is determined by a product call carotene, the naturally occurring ingredient in carrots, orange peel, tomatoes and similar. Good green grass gives good yellow yokes. Some organic poultry feeds will add extra natural carotene's. Nothing will however make a bird lay white or brown eggs if its not in their genes.

Answer 2

It depends on the breed and, with a MINOR variation, on the diet.

Our chickens all get the same food and the eggs are white, cream, brown, dark brown specked or blue, depending on the breed.

Its not "pot luck", or related to the colour of the birds, skin or feathers.

guess there are a lot of "guessers" in YA today, unless people are being deliverable wrong just to confuse you.

Answer 3

It actually depends on the breed of chicken as well. there are many different breeds of chicken that are good egg layers. My English Bantams laid beautiful pale blue-is white eggs - until the fox got in and killed them all. Whilst the Rhode Island Reds gave big brown speckled beauties.

Answer 4

The colour of the eggs is nothing to do with the colour of the hens feathers...It is all determined by their breeding and therefore white hens can produce white or brown eggs and generally brown hens would lay brown eggs..the depth of colour is genetically determined..

Answer 5

Actually they put chemicals in the feed for the chicken to make the egg shells white and the yolks golden yellow. It looks pretty but it is not necessarily better tasting nor is it necessarily good for you. The more naturally fed chickens will usually lay browner eggs.

Answer 6

That's racist! Back in the 70s brown eggs were more expensive than white eggs. It's a load of rubbish.

Answer 7

Your statement/question is true. White eggs come from white hens, and brown eggs come from brown hens. The variance in brown colour is due to different breds of hens.

Answer 8

the egg colour depends on what the chicken has eaten.

Answer 9

It all depends on diets and mineral present in the chickens' feed.

Answer 10

the colour of the shell and the yolk depends on what the chicken have been fed