[Food] White Hen Eggs

[papachris]

These days I only buy free range eggs which usually start with number 1 or 2. Definitely avoid number 3 which are from caged birds. They might be cheaper but it's a pretty cruel way to keep animals.
And also nowadays you quite often get white and brown both in the same box. But got no preference on this

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Seem to remember something about flu vaccine needing white egg shells, and therefore removed from food chain as more valuable?

 

[maffew]

Hen

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Eggs were mainly white or sometimes, if you were lucky, they were speckled, in the 50s and 60s.
I blame tv chefs who were showing off using brown eggs so the public thought they must be better for you.

There is no difference in nutrition, so now people accept white eggs again.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Woke yolk nonsense

 

[Pevenseagull]

These days if you want white eggs ....

 

[Dinner with Gotsmanov]

Come on NSCers, come out of your shells and start making egg puns…

Must be original though, not poached from anyone else..

Or is the above an ouef….

 

[hart's shirt]

Come on NSCers, come out of your shells and start making egg puns…

You wouldn't get many egg puns from the Holmesdale Ultras as they haven't been laid yet.

 

[Chicken Run]

Eggs were mainly white or sometimes, if you were lucky, they were speckled, in the 50s and 60s.
I blame tv chefs who were showing off using brown eggs so the public thought they must be better for you.

There is no difference in nutrition, so now people accept white eggs again.

Thanks for this, very insightful, i find the white eggs easier to crack open and less shell debris

 

[BadFish]

I have three chickens at work, the Isa Brown lays brown eggs and the white ones (Austrlorp) lay white eggs.

 

[Goldstone1976]

I have three chickens at work, the Isa Brown lays brown eggs and the white ones (Austrlorp) lay white eggs.

We have some silkies, booties, Polish, brahmas, and a faverolles at home. We get brown and white eggs; I have no clue which breed lays which colour though.

 

[BadFish]

We have some silkies, booties, Polish, brahmas, and a faverolles at home. We get brown and white eggs; I have no clue which breed lays which colour though.

My Australorps have come to me pre-laying so I know which are theirs, they are also younger and their eggs are currently smaller.

 

[HeaviestTed]

We are lucky as out in the sticks there are a few local people who have chickens and sell eggs - haven’t ever seen a white egg and the yolks are always a deep yellow/orange.

Can’t believe the white egg thing is positive in any way.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Thanks for this, very insightful, i find the white eggs easier to crack open and less shell debris

Yes, white eggs are easier to peel when hard boiled.

 

[Chicken Run]

Yes, white eggs are easier to peel when hard boiled.

Oohhh good to know, i love a egg mayonnaise/salad cream sandwich

 

[tedebear]

Here is a useful article from Poultry News , its to do with laying cycle being quicker amongst other things:

White turn - Poultry News

www.poultrynews.co.uk

 

[Anger]

Box of six in our fridge are brown.

See Sainsburys and ask them for their Woodland Free Range box of 6 (price £2.95).

They also have some s*** and feathers on them for no extra charge.

 

[McTavish]

I have two white chickens, one lays brown eggs and one lays blue.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

I grew up on a poultry farm back in the 1960's and all our eggs were brown - thanks to the breed preferred by the farm manager, the rather unromantically named Babcock 490, if memory serves me correctly. As the egg passes through the hen it is coloured by a brown pigment. The younger the hen the darker brown it is. As the hen ages, and it's reservoir of pigment starts to run out, the eggs become lighter brown but are never absolutely white in a brown egg producing breed. So a 16 week old pullet at "point of lay" will produce a small really dark brown egg, while a hen of 18 months will have used up most of its supply of pigment and produce a larger lighter egg.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I grew up on a poultry farm back in the 1960's and all our eggs were brown - thanks to the breed preferred by the farm manager, the rather unromantically named Babcock 490, if memory serves me correctly. As the egg passes through the hen it is coloured by a brown pigment. The younger the hen the darker brown it is. As the hen ages, and its reservoir of pigment starts to run out, the eggs become lighter brown but are never absolutely white in a brown egg producing breed. So a 16 week old pullet at "point of lay" will produce a small really dark brown egg, while a hen of 18 months will have used up most of its supply of pigment and produce a larger lighter egg.

The Jackson life cycle of egg making