As consumers start to see egg prices drop and availability increase, a noticeable gap remains between brown and white eggs, ...

White leghorn chickens lay white-shelled eggs, and breeds like Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds lay brown-shelled eggs.

This led to the brown strains being slightly heavier than the white, no matter the housing type, with a better feed conversion ratio (FCR). While no significant differences were found, brown birds ...

Rhode Island Reds, Plymouth Rocks, and Orpingtons are brown egg-laying chicken breeds. While all three are dual-purpose breeds, reared both for eggs and for meat, the Orpingtons are also popular ...

to be brown or white. For starters, know that non commercial eggs come in all sorts of hues - grays and blues, and greens, depending on the breed of the chicken laying them. However, most stores ...