SC - Egg shell colours

[D. Clay-Disparti]

While reading all the chicken/egg stuff thought I'd thrown in my two cents
worth.  My grandmother always preferred the brown eggs because she felt the
quality was better (the chickens were all free range and the only difference in
diet was who got what insect, and if one included a tasty morsel like a field
mouse in their diet.)  The uppermost difference, however, was that the brown
eggs lasted longer than the white eggs as a rule.

I raised chickens for years and love the arucana eggs in their lovely pastel
colors.  The only problem I had with the arucanas was that they loved to fly the
coup and nest in the woods.  Very interesting trying to keep from letting them
out of the large chicken area when I went inside. (It had a top of poulty mesh
on it to help discourage the intrusion of raccoons and possums.)  It was even
more interesting still locating the nests and snatching the eggs before some
beasty.

Isabella/Dee

Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:

> hi all from Anne-Marie
>
> Ras Sez:
> >Simply make 2 sponge cakes, one with white eggs, one with brown eggs.
> >Scientific or not, the proof is in the pudding, or in this case, in the
> cake.
> >:-)
> >
> >Many people also think brown eggs are more flavorful than white eggs. There
> >is perpetual disagreement between the 'experts' and those with 'experience'
> >about whether brown eggs are better than white eggs. I am in the latter
> >group. :-)
> >
>
> I wonder how much of that is artifactual, ie brown eggs taste better/raise
> cakes better/etc because brown egged chickens tend to be fed better, housed
> better, treated better than your generic million-in-little-cages,
> fed-god-knows-what-ground-up commerically raised white egged chicken?
>
> so if my theory is correct, its not the color of the shell that makes 'em
> better, but the lifestyle of the chicken. So, free range white shelled eggs
> would have the same results as your brown shelled eggs?
>
> When I took french cooking classes the chef swore by free range eggs, and
> would buy the araconda eggs with the green and yellow and pink shells. And
> his cakes and custards were indeed to die for...he always said its the bugs
> that made the difference (the bugs the chickens ate, one assumes...)
>
> anyone wanna volunteer to do a side by side controlled experiment? :)
>
> --AM, your resident science geek :D
>
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