The yoke on brown eggs is alot darker than whites, I always felt they were heavier in  flavor? And have seen many more double & triple yoke in brown eggs.

Glad they are definitely green in Oklahoma--Jeans are free range also and she sells eggs--some folks think its neat when she sticks one of these in--others aren't so pleased.        Katz

Araucana's lay green, blue and sometimes pinkish colored eggs.  Great yolks in a wee egg.  My Mom has raised Araucanas for 20-something years.  They act like she's the "Big Chick", following her around all the time.  From what I've read/heard about "colored eggs", there's no nutritional difference in the rainbow vs. white vs. brown.  But to me, there's nothing like a brown egg for baking and eating...Even if it's only psychological, they seem to taste better....Don't you think?

when i was a kid growing up in new england we had an "egg man" that would bring eggs to the house every week.  he was a sweet old guy that always had plenty to stop and chat about.  he always brought brown eggs - and i think that's why i always buy them now.  nostalgia.

I always had white eggs growing up at my house.  Then on occasion we would visit the grandparents, where the eggs were brown.  Ugh.  To a toddler/ early elementary age child, brown was just not "right".  I am sure I raised quite a stink at being told to eat those brown (to me "dirty") eggs, which I thought were surely "rotten".

We still had milk delivery up til 1991.  The man retired and no one wanted the job.  My friend delivers eggs around our town, but mostly to the senior housing buildings where the older folks can't get out often.  Several other chicken hobbyists deliver eggs, too.

Annie

We can still get eggs delivered--milk stopped a few years ago. If the farmers didn't deliver eggs in a lot of the small towns I think some folks would never have any--I don't think some of them know they are sold in grocery stores--and if they did they would never admit they taste the same as "fresh" eggs.        Katz

Well, a good thing your family didn't raise Auracana chickens :).   They lay eggs from brown to green to blue!!  They're a really neat chicken, much smarter than those raised in chicken houses.

 

Kathy

As to the nutrition, it's all in what the chicken was fed.  About 20 years ago there was that big kerfuffle about all the cholesteral in chicken eggs.  Studies were done.  Free range chickens had much more nutritious eggs, because they were eating the natural foods they're supposed to.  I have a friend who raised free range chicks, and get her eggs whenever they're available.

 

Kathy

-dating myself?  why - i'll just turn 29 on dec. 20th!  (ha ha)  and hey - i still get milk delivery - organic milk - it is actually cheaper than the grocery store.  (if i could just remember to leave a note the night before when we don't need any milk.)

I get green eggs all the time from the farm they are layed buy fancies so I've been told the shells on the green /blue eggs are thinner than normal white or brown eggs and I like the taste better I have gotten so used to eating farm fresh eggs that the eggs from the store have no flavor I think the nutrition is better also

Pat

Hello, this convo is really giving me a chuckle, I think because my children are oh so picky picky about their eggs. They love eggs benedict at home all the time their fave and I took them out for breakfast and  ordered them eggs benny and they are so good about not wasting it would make anyone proud but they just could'nt couldn't eat those store eggs they tried but kept saying mom something's wrong with these eggs. I'm with D there and loved your very factual reply by the way, about nutrition being the same in eggs and I know you are correct for sure ,but everyone in our house has such disgust with store eggs,not free range, that they only order waffles and pancakes in restaurants now! The difference in flavor is extreme. Marianne