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The difference between a brown egg and a white egg is...

...that a brown egg is laid by a reddish-brown hen with reddish-brown ear lobes, and a white egg is laid by a hen with white feathers and white ear lobes.

Then again this is not necessarily always true! Check out www.backyardchickens.com/

for the actual breeds that lay each color. There are also more colors or variations.

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9y ago

The first and obvious difference is their color, the second is the type of chicken it comes out of, personally I haven't tasted any difference between the two.

Nutritionally there is no difference, various breeds lay different colors. White eggs are popular with grocery stores visually (clean and fresh looking) and one of the best laying breeds happens to lay white eggs. Restaurants often prefer brown eggs as it is easier to see bits of shell when they fall in the food being prepared. A tiny white bit of shell in a pound of flour is hard to find until somebody crunches it. Yolk color is adjusted by feed contents.

Really, the only true difference is the one you mentioned, the color. They taste the same, have the same amount of nutrients, everything. The only difference is the genetics of the chicken that laid the egg.

Note - Many people do not know this, but technically, brown eggs and white eggs have the same shell color - white. The brown you see is an "overlay" of color. Hence, both eggs have white shells - but the brown has an "overlay" of color that makes it a brown color.

Note 2- White eggs are the product of chickens with white ears and chickens with red ears lay other colors including Blue and green. The quality of the egg depends on if you get the egg from a grocery store that has mass produced eggs or from a farmer that lets the eggs run freely.

The reason you see more white eggs in the stores is because the mass producers will normally use the Leghorn chicken one of the best egg producers it is also a smaller chicken and not as often used as a eating chicken.

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The only difference between a white egg and the brown egg is the color of the shell, which is determined by the genetics of the hen that laid it. There is no nutritional difference between brown and white eggs.

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It depends on the color of the chicken that laid the egg. There is no difference in taste or quality or health benefits

it is also said that the brown egg has a slightly harder outer shell

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15y ago

chickens with dark brown or black feathers like Barred-Rock Hens lay brown or off colored eggs, white chicken breeds generally produce bright white eggs. just learned it like a week ago from my grandma and grandpa because they own a dozen or so egg producing hens...essentially the eggs are the same thing and they taste the same too

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The color of the egg makes absolutely no difference in the hardness of the eggshell.

The age and nutritional health of the chicken is what matters. The colour of the shell is just a very thin coating of bile on an otherwise white eggshell. The younger the pullet the harder the shell.

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13y ago

nothing.

the only difference is the breed of chicken it came from.

the egg is still the same, it is just a different colour.

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a brown egg is just farm fresh a white egg isn't

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i believe the brown eggs have no hormones or antibiotics injected to them

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The pigment in the very outer layers of the shell is the only difference.

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What color of eggs do white chickens come from?

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