SC - florilegium question

[Stefan li Rous]

As I have described in another post, the color differences are a genetic
thing, totally unrelated to the diet of the chicken. What will change,
depending on diet, is the color of the yolk- a free range chicken's yolk
tends to be a much darker yellow than a production chicken's.

I suspect the preferences in egg shell color in the US stem from the belief
that a brown egg is somehow healthier, since that's the color of shell many
people remember from their visits to farms as kids. The reason that many
small farmers would have brown eggs is that in the 50's, most people were
trained to believe that white eggs were better, sorta like wonderful Wonder
Bread ;-) , and chickens which laid brown eggs were cheaper.


Phlip

phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.



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