some eggs are brown why is that?????

Answer 1

People think that everything brown is better.
Like brown bread and other things.
The color really doesn't make a difference.
It's just how it comes out of the hen.
Brown eggs come from brown hens.

Answer 2

Good question. Now, let me ask you a question: If you had a baby, what color would it be?

I'm not a magician. I don't know your ethnicity. But I can safely assume that your kid is going to have a skin tone similar to your own (interracial unions aside for the moment).

The same is true in the chicken world. 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.

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.

Well Colleen, I hope I answered your question and that I didn't "lay an egg" with my response.

From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy:

lay an egg - To fail, or to have one's efforts fall flat: "Jim tried to tell a few jokes, but each time he forgot the punch line and laid an egg."

Answer 3

It has to do with breed of the chicken. I live in the country and I can tell difference in taste. The brown eggs taste more like country eggs. It has nothing to do with what color the chicken is. Have you ever seen a blue egg? My dad used to raise the chickens that laid blue eggs because these eggs are supposed be more nutritious for you. His chickens weren't blue so again it has nothing to do with what color the chicken is, just the breed.

Answer 4

"Precious1" is right... We had chickens lay light green eggs, brown, white and off white... 4 different breeds, 4 kinds of eggs to bake with.

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Answer 5

The egg color depends on the type of chicken it comes from. Look at a chicken's earlobes and whatever color it is. That will be the color of the egg.

Answer 6

If you bought them from a carton as white eggs, you probably shouldn't eat one/cook one. If you bought them brown from a merchant that sold them brown, then ok......there is a reason you should crack eggs in a separate container before you add them as an ingredient into whatever you are making, ie, some that I have seen have a half made chick in it, or blood, or are green.....not good to eat. That is why you crack them into a bowl or something else before you add eggs to your bakery/dinner/cooking.

Answer 7

the reason that some eggs are brown is because they dint feed the chickens that make the eggs preservatives, antioxidants, and steroids so the brown eggs are healthier

Answer 8

brown or red hens lay brown eggs. white chickens lay white eggs.

Answer 9

It's just the breed of chicken they come from. There's no difference in taste or nutrition content...

Answer 10

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