Why do brown eggs cost more?

[WPOZZZ]

White Eggs Matter!

[URY914]

Originally Posted by tabs

Once you do Brown you never go back...after eating Brown eggs I feel like dancing and have an irrestible urge to eat watermelon and fried chicken.

Wow.

[ckelly78z]

Most of our farm chickens lay brown eggs. The big difference is seeing the color of the yolk in the center of the egg. Most store bought eggs are a light yellow, while ours are almost orange from being free range, pecking at bugs, grass, and other wild stuff in the woods. They have the full run of our 10 acres, of pasture, creek, and woods while store bought eggs come from all white chickens in a huge barn facility with 10,000 others, and no access to anything other than GMO feed.

Give me farm raised eggs any day !

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by tabs

Once you do Brown you never go back...after eating Brown eggs I feel like dancing and have an irrestible urge to eat watermelon and fried chicken.

That explains the mink coat.

[WPOZZZ]

We have white TKG eggs with a beautiful orange yolk. Damned things are $5 a dozen at the grocery store.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

We have white TKG eggs with a beautiful orange yolk. Damned things are $5 a dozen at the grocery store.

Nellie's are $5 too. That's only 42 cents per egg. A bargain when you think about it.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

They have the full run of our 10 acres, of pasture, creek, and woods !

How does that work out for you? Do you lose many to predators? Do you lock them up at night? We keep our chickens in a virtual vault for fear of predators. I have game camera video of a fox running around and around outside our chicken vault. For sure would have lost some that night.

[KFC911]

^^^^ If ya like hoot owls and hawks...well, they like egg layers....tastes like chicken !

A few folks I know (city folk )...had the buffet out before they learned....once was in the coop too from what I hear....secure 'em.

[cabmandone]

Holy crap! I thought paying the local guy $2.50/dozen was nuts.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

It’s about the chicken’s genetics. Breeds that lay brown eggs are going to lay brown eggs no matter what you feed them.

Sorry, I was talking about the flavor being based on what the chickens ate.

[Tobra]

Generally, when I get brown ones, someone gives them to me because they have more eggs than they can eat. If you give your chickens marigold petals to eat, the yolk is really orange

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

That explains the mink coat.

and the shoes

[GH85Carrera]

It is all supply and demand. If gullible folks think there is a tangible difference, they will buy more of them, the supply is lower, and the price goes up.

Standing at a convenience store the other day by the cooler with the colored water "sports drinks" the same stuff, with different colors was priced different. Evidently the red must be in more demand than the blue. The red was more expensive buy 20 cents per bottle. I have never bought one of either, so I have no idea if the tastes is better.

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by tabs

Once you do Brown you never go back...after eating Brown eggs I feel like dancing and have an irrestible urge to eat watermelon and fried chicken.

That's some pretty ugly racist BS right there.

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

How does that work out for you? Do you lose many to predators? Do you lock them up at night? We keep our chickens in a virtual vault for fear of predators. I have game camera video of a fox running around and around outside our chicken vault. For sure would have lost some that night.

As long as there's scrub and trees chickens can avoid predators. If a fox gets in a coop then it's like shooting fish in a barrel. We had a couple of roosters that were locked out from the girls, lots of coyotes here, never lost a single one.

Originally Posted by sugarwood

Brown eggs appear more natural.

Natural = unprocessed = GLUTEN FREE, FREE-RANGE, NON-GMO, FAIR TRADE, DAIRY-FREE, SUSTAINABLY RAISED, LOCALLY GROWN, VEGAN, = $$$$

Yes, the brown eggs are even dairy-free vegan !

BS claim, free range = eating bugs, mice, lizards, etc. That's why true free range eggs taste better. Free range don't eat grass, they eat seeds and grains and some shoots, plus the bugs, etc.

[gshase]

Try some blue chicken eggs....You will never go back

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by tabs

Once you do Brown you never go back...after eating Brown eggs I feel like dancing and have an irrestible urge to eat watermelon and fried chicken.

Jeeez tabs. Did a black guy steal one of your girlfriends? Must still sting.

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by gshase

Try some blue chicken eggs....You will never go back

Heritage birds we had a few, eggs taste the same but were on average smaller.
We did it for a while, meat and layers, I'm still a bit off chicken.

[ckelly78z]

We have had a mink squeeze into our inside the barn coop with the youngsters (chickens), and decimate them (like shooting fish in a barrel, and only eating the heads). The adults usually roost in a loft, or on top of fence panels inside of the barn at night. I tend to think that on our property with trees, and an open barn, the chickens are more safe when loose.

[911 Rod]

Has anyone tried shooting fish in a barrel?
I can't see it being that easy. lol

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

It is all supply and demand.

Yes, the cost of producing them keeps the supply down. Leghorns (lay white eggs) are very efficient and tolerate factory farm methods well, so it costs less to produce white eggs.