BROWN EGGS VERSUS WHITE EGGS

Students sometimes tell me that brown eggs are better than white eggs, that brown eggs are healthier. Well, that's not true. In fact, egg color has nothing to do with healthiness or taste. It has to do with the chicken that laid the egg. Simply put, different chicken breeds or kinds lay different colored eggs.

This Rhode Island Red lays brown eggs

Americauna Hens actually lay LIGHT BLUE eggs!

Leghorn Hens lay white eggs

Here are come other eggs "colored by nature" and the chicken breed that lays them