I do the weekly shopping,
and find myself asking questions that I have no answer to, for instance is a brown egg more healthy for you than a white egg? if one is better than the other why sell the one that is not so good for you? and what about strange coloured ones like the blue naturally occurring egg above that we saw on our trip to Rudwick steam fair in September 2010? when we holidayed in the UK,
or pink eggs that we saw when we lived in Thailand, these at a market in October 2014, well I am happy to say that the colour of an egg is dependent on what breed of hen a farm
has, white eggs are usually laid by the leghorn hen breed, and brown eggs are
laid by a breed related to the Rhode Island Red, if you want to be 100% check the chickens earlobes, then you will know as I now do after reading this article, I also found out that the look of
egg whites from an egg can give you an idea of how fresh the egg is, strangely enough egg
whites that are cloudy are very fresh, while egg whites that are clear indicate
an older egg, I would have thought it would have been the other way around.
2 comments:
In Texas we can buy cage free, backyard chicken Rhode Island Red brown fresh eggs for $2.00 for 12. We notice the yokes are a deeper yellow and more like golf balls in height....very round in the pan versus flat. We can tell how fresh by the color and height in the pan....alley likes the cage free jumbo eggs best as we get a lot of double yokes and is lucky sign in Thailand. Maybe when we get a lucky egg we can bet on powerball and win!
Regards John and Alley
Dear John and Alley, many years ago my father often came home with a tray of eggs that he had bought whilst out on the road as a area manager for an industrial paint manufacture, any way the eggs seemed huge and had a high number of double yokers, Dad referred to them as Ooh-Ah eggs, the noise the chicken made as she laid the huge egg! well as youngster I thought it was funny! a lottery win would great, Diana would be on the first plane to the Philippines, when they let people from the UK back in! best regards, Stan and Diana.
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