What is the difference between brown and white eggs?

Question

Is there any nutritional difference? Any taste difference? Do they cook differently?

Answer 1

Other than the color of the shell, I have never noticed any difference whatsoever.

Answer 2

Nope.  The only difference is one is brown and the other is white!

Here in MA, we had an ad campaign for a long time, to a tune that got stuck in your head:  Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!

Not sure if it was ever true here though.

Answer 3

No, they are exactly the same.  The color comes from the color of the hen that layed them.

Answer 4

My grandfather always said that chickens that lay brown eggs are just nicer chickens.  (He kept chickens)  You've heard of "pecking order"?

Well, some breeds of chicken are harder to keep than others because they really beat up on the birds below them in the pecking order.  And this will occur to the point of actually killing the lowest birds by constant torture.

Other than that there is no difference in the eggs.

I buy free-range eggs (brown) from a local who keeps a few hens and a rooster.  He says he keeps the chickens he keeps because they have a nice disposition.

Answer 5

no difference in taste white chickens lay brown eggs and colored (brown, black) chickens lay white eggs (or so I've been told)

  

Answer 6

According to the Egg Nutrition Board (and who should know better?), "White shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and ear lobes. Brown shelled eggs are produced by hens with red feathers and red ear lobes. There is no difference in taste or nutrition between white and brown eggs." The people at Crisco (who may know even more than the egg nutritionists) go further to say, "They simply come from two different breeds of chickens. Brown eggs, however, are more expensive because the chickens that lay them eat more than those that lay white eggs." Among the breeds that lay brown eggs are the Rhode Island Red, the New Hampshire and the Plymouth Rock--all larger birds that require more food.

Answer 7

Hens that produce brown eggs are larger than white-egg-producing hens, and require more feed and care; that extra expense is passed on to the consumer. Although it might be cheaper to raise white-egg-producing hens, brown eggs continue to sell well, so they’re still a smart business choice for farmers.