SC - Egg shell colours

[Alderton, Philippa]

IIRC, it has to do with the breed of chicken -- Rhode Island Reds lay brown
eggs.
Raoghnailt
Stan Wyrm, Artemisia
rygbee at montana.com
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Subject: Re: SC - Egg shell colours


> Hello the list,
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that in Britain white
eggs
> are sought after more than brown eggs, and that the opposite is true in
the US.
>
>
> Also - what causes the different colour shell?  Does it depend on what the
> chicken is fed or what?
>
> Elysant
>
>
> > As for last minute details that I was wondering about. Were brown eggs
> > period? I am doing the lenten eggs and the thought of displaying nothing
> > but plain white eggs is just killing me.  It is so boring!  I thought
> > mixing brown and white eggs would give my display more color and life.
>
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