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I just thought I’d say that the “home-reared” brown eggs can still be gotten and they do taste better.
I’m from northern New York, and there’s a small egg farm in my town where we buy brown eggs from time to time. The yolk is more golden than yellow, and they are more . . . rich, or something. They’re very good.
Later,
dlack
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board, dlack, glad to have you with us.
The white vs brown eggs is not a column by Cecil, but by Staff; hence, your comments belong in a different forum. Please read over the forum descriptions, for future. No big deal, just makes it easier for others.
Sorry, didn’t notice that there was a different forum for the staff. And now I see that I made a duplicate topic . . .
While were on the subject…
As a kid, my grandparents raised chickens…most of them were white, and all the eggs were brown. I asked them why the they were brown they told me it was because of the food they eat, that they were allowed to run around in the field and eat bugs and such.
I’m Ms. Smarty pants today. 
dlack I think you were getting duck eggs from your home reared place. I grew up eating them and your description fits, and all the duck eggs I ate were brown.
In a biology class long ago we addressed this question and the prof. said that there was no difference between white and brown eggs. He said that the eggs were colored when they passed through the cloaca ( an all purpose exit in birds and reptiles) and therefore it did not effect the contents.
When I was growing up we had a couple of Aracauna hens (or “Easter Egg” chickens) that layed green-shelled eggs. They tasted similar to brown chicken eggs (the richer home-grown variety) looked no different inside, but had green shells.
Apparently, the Aracauna hen can lay eggs in blue, green or pink colors, but ours were all green. (The hens themselves were brown or white, not green.)
On a side note, my father refused to eat the green eggs because they were “weird” and didn’t come from the store, so weren’t real eggs, LOL.
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Board, CG, glad to have you with us!
My coworker raises chickens that lay brown eggs. She says that they taste better, but only because they’re so much fresher than any you’d get at the supermarket. She also says some people swear that fertilized eggs taste better too (don’t worry, they collect them daily so no danger of finding a chick in one!).
He wouldn’t even eat them in the house? What about with a mouse, or a fox? And what if he were in a box? Are you saying that he wouldn’t eat them here, there, nor anywhere?
What about with green ham?