What is the difference between the regular eggs and the brown ones?

Answer 1

nothing.

Answer 2

Egg color is dependant on the breed of chicken, nothing more. Generally (but not always) you can tell by their earlobes. If the hen has white earlobes she'll lay white eggs. If they're brown, she'll lay brown. However, there are some Asiatic breeds with black skin and lobes, and they lay lightly tinted eggs that look white, and the Americaunas have red lobes I think, and they lay green or blue shelled eggs.

The eggs themselves are the same, just in a different color wrapper predetermined by the ancestory of the hen.

The association of brown eggs being better for you or organic is nonsense. What it is, is that the breeds used by the commercial hatcheries all lay white eggs. The white egg laying breeds on a whole tend to be non setters, smaller in size, and with a higher production level. Most of the brown egg layers are older breeds like what gramma had on the farm. They're heavier (cost more to feed), more likely to set a nest than just keep laying 350 days a year. Most of the family flocks and farm flocks are comprised of the brown egg layers with a few Leghorns (white eggers) tossed into the mix.

Answer 3

Egg shell color is caused by pigment deposition during egg formation in the oviduct and can vary according to breed, from the more common white or brown to pink or speckled blue-green. Although there is no significant link between shell color and nutritional value, there is often a cultural preference for one color over another. For example, in most regions of the United States, eggs are generally white; while in the northeast of that country and in the United Kingdom, eggs are generally light-brown. In Brazil, white eggs are generally regarded as industrial, and red or light blue eggs are preferred. Regarding chicken eggs, the color of the egg depends on the color of the bird. According to the Egg Nutrition Center, hens with white feathers and earlobes will lay white eggs, and chickens with red feathers and earlobes will lay brownish eggs.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Dear Mr Breakfast,

Why are some eggs white and others brown?

Colleen H.

Hi Colleen H!

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."

Your pal,

Mr Breakfast

Answer 6

A "white shelled" egg is layed by a chicken with white feathers , commonly known as a white feathered leghorn chicken.
A "brown shelled" egg is layed by a chicken with brown feathers, commonly known as a brown feathered leghorn chicken.
That is the only difference.
The eggs look and taste the same.
The shell color is used as a marketing tactic to get you to "pay more" for a dozen eggs at the local supermarket.
Look how many consumers fall into this trap..................
So called "Organic egg producers" use the brown feathered chicken as part of their egg marketing tactics to get you to think that the "brown shelled egg" is so much better than a regular "white shelled egg", Phooee!!!!
Spend your hard earned money wisely.
Chicken eggs are chicken eggs.
The only thing that truly affects the overall quality of an egg is what the hen consumes in her daily diet, which in turn can make the egg yolk appear to be of a much deeper yellow-orange in color when you crack one open to use.
The only true thing a shell color represents is the breed of the chicken that layed the egg. Thats it, period.

Answer 7

I have chickens, therefore I have eggs. The answer is that it's the color of the chicken that determines the color of the egg shell. It's has nothing to do with how large or small the hen is, merely her color that denotes the egg shell color. We have 3 different breeds of chickens, no white ones, and we've never had a white egg.

Answer 8

Nothing. The color of the egg as well as the thickness of the shell is determined by what the chicken is fed. However a white chicken will not lay a brown egg so the breed of a chicken also determines the color of the egg. personally i dont buy brown only because where i live they cost more then the white and my daughter thinks they look like poo

Answer 9

No difference in the eggs, the color of the eggs has to do with the chicken who lays it.

Answer 10

In England you can only buy brown eggs from the stores!

There is no difference at all. It's something to do with the colour of the hen that laid them.

Additional: And a round of applause to the "thumbs down" wankers. Oh look! From the other answers below, it seems I'M RIGHT!

Answer 11

The only difference is the variety of chicken and what it eats.

Chicken eggs come in other colors too. Green and blue for instance.

Otherwise, the only difference is the price.