Why are the eggs in UK brown and in other countries they are white? Any special reason for different colours?

Answer 1

Its because of the feed theyre giving the hens. it also effects the colour of the meat. you can also get white eggs in the uk and ireland too!, it just depends on the food youre giving the hens, thats all!

hope ive helped

Fae

Answer 2

There are white eggs in the UK. The difference in the colour depends on the breed, the most popular for commercial producers is the brown egg layer. There was a misconception that brown eggs were healthier, but it's what's inside that counts not the colour of the shell..

Answer 3

I dont think that is totaly correct we too have white eggs in the UK but I think after yet another study it was found that brown eggs were more appealing to the great british public so thats what we get from the egg producers.Hope that is of some help?

Answer 4

The color of eggs has nothing to do with geography. The color of eggs is determined by the breed of chickens. Rhode Island Red hens produce fine brown eggs. Other American breeds produce eggs that are slightly green or blue. Most supermarket eggs in the United States are white because the commercial poultry raisers keep white chickens.

Answer 5

Many years ago when I was in retail food, brown eggs always sold better than white.

I never knew why, and to be honest, I still don't.

I can recall a farmer who used to sell free range eggs, and he got a mix of both white and brown.
Due to the popular demand for brown eggs, he used to place the white ones in cold tea, to stain the shells brown, for 24 hours.

This is true, but I'm going back to the mid seventies.

Maybe farmers still do this ?

Answer 6

It's all to do with the breed of chickens that lay the eggs, in the UK we seem to think that brown eggs are somehow superior, but not so, they are both the same inside! It has nothing to do with the colour of the chickens either, I had white chickens that laid brown eggs and black chickens that laid white ones, it's all to do with the breed!

Answer 7

The colour of the shell is down to the chicken feed. The presence of the shell is also down to the amount of grit in the feed. White eggs are usually duck eggs.

Answer 8

The UK has white eggs too. When I was a kid people used to say brown eggs were healthier! But apparently thats bunkum.

Answer 9

yes i would like to eat some of those real EGGS that Marie is referring to as the eggs in UK are tasteless unless you smother them with salt and pepper and as for the questioner there are white and brown eggs in UK where have you been shopping?

Answer 10

The general public is accustomed to white eggs in the US. We like to get farm eggs and they are not only brown and white they can also be speckled, green and purple! Once you get used to farm eggs, it is very hard to go back to those white things. And yes, I am actually talking about EGGS!!