Brown & White Eggs

Seems over the past 3 months, I’ve seen alot more brown eggs in stores vs white. Brown is all that Costco had the other day.
Anyone know why or seeing the same?

Around here there was a shortage. Probably what they could get their hands on to meet the demand.

before the coons and the fox got all of our rhode island red chickys, they always blessed us with brown eggs, they seem to taste better than the whites, and they do better when baking stuff too! now...the reason ya'll are seeing more brown eggs in the stores is the egg producers have found out that people will buy them before buying the white ones. soooooo.....they now are dying the white eggs light brown before shipping them out. i don't know what they are using for the dye but it's coating them pretty good without drips.

A brown egg layer and a white egg layer side by side raised the same way, with the same food will have the same tasting etc eggs, just different color. Brown eggs evoke a more rural organic farm raised image in the minds of most, and some producers are using it as a feel good healthy to eat egg image and charge more. Organic free range eggs are a different story and vary according to feed including foraged feed, both white and brown. Less production and more work involved so more justifiable cost. I will not buy brown eggs from the store, to many BS artists in the supply chain. I will still eat a brown egg in a heart beat thou cause I love eggs (Tom ).

The majority of brown eggs have gone to restaurants in the past, with most restaurants closed, and the run on eggs currently, these brown eggs are now in the retail supply chain.

Doesn't want the pan thrown at him.

Brian Jasper co. Ia wrote: chaskaduo wrote: A brown egg layer and a white egg layer side by side raised the same way, with the same food will have the same tasting etc eggs, just different color. Brown eggs evoke a more rural organic farm raised image in the minds of most, and some producers are using it as a feel good healthy to eat egg image and charge more. Organic free range eggs are a different story and vary according to feed including foraged feed, both white and brown. Less production and more work involved so more justifiable cost. I will not buy brown eggs from the store, to many BS artists in the supply chain. I will still eat a brown egg in a heart beat thou cause I love eggs  (Tom ). This was my thoughts as well. I can say that when I had chickens, I didn't feed them commercial feed, just cracked corn, some shell and bone builder, and because the coop was close to the yard light pole, they would say out late gorging themselves on june bugs and whatever else they could catch. Those were the best eggs I've ever had.

fixer1958 wrote: White or brown eggs make no difference it's the color of the yolks that will throw a lot of people off. Some people are conditioned to the pale tasteless store/restaurant versions. If they try or see what a real egg looks and tastes they think something is wrong with it.

One of my sons works for 1 of the largest egg producers in the USA. Several years ago the idiots in California passed a law that all eggs sold in California had to come from "free range chickens". The birds could not be in a cage laying eggs. All of a sudden there were no eggs in the stores in California. There were not enough free range eggs to supply California. My son had to go to Arizona and set up a new egg farm that has about 500000 chickens laying eggs all over inside these huge buildings. Everything they lay goes to southern California.

HD6 is that chicken farm near Bouse Arizona that one is so big they ran a rail spur to it