Hi all you chicken eggsperts!! (Sorry!
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We get blue, brown and white eggs from our girls, we've only had chooks 2 months, so all pretty new to us.
A farmer told me the eggs taste and quality are not affected by shell colour... just that consumers preferred brown eggs to white for the look.
I have been experimenting.. (Actually, bit sick of egg on toast but trying to maintain consisiency)
The brown eggs from Marans and Dorking are definately nicer/richer/thicker yolked than the white eggs from leghorn, ixworth and bluebelle, and the blue eggs from legbar are in between.
Now.. is this simply an egg colour thing? Or a breed thing? Or am I imagining it all and they all taste the same to you???
At some point,(Next year or so) I think we are going to extend our chicken population, and birds for table will be on the menu, along with some "novelty breeds" for my own entertainment, and yummy eggs will be a factor.