Why are egg shells in the u.k and australia a beige colour, but in the u.s they are white?

you can get brown and white eggs in the US, i use brown

Why are egg shells in the u.k and australia a beige colour, but in the u.s they are white?
We have beige and white in Australia.
Reply:beige just means they are natural. their actually brown. you can get them at your supermarket
Reply:Most I eggs I buy in the US are brown too....
Reply:Different breeds of chickens lay different colors of eggs. I have Aracanas that lay green eggs, I had a Rhode Island Red that layed brown eggs, my black chickens all lay brown but I had a black chicken with a ploom on top of it's head that layed white eggs.



Generally the eggs you purchase in the store are from white layers. If you ever watch the Discovery channel, on occasion they will show a chicken farm with rows and rows of chickens in cages busy eating and laying eggs. I don't know if the white ones just happen to lay more eggs a year that their counterparts or why white is chosen.



In the "good old days" they just had all-purpose chickens that had a lot of meat on their bones and still layed a lot of eggs. When they quit laying - they went in the stew pot.



Today they've bread them so the layers are very thin built - not much meat on them, and the fryers are very large and grow fast. The layers grow slowly to maturity.



Did you know the fryer chickens you buy in the store (all the chicken parts and whole chickens) are no older than 4 to 5 weeks? The fryers grow that fast. I had a fryer that we kept around to 7 weeks and it weighed dressed (cleaned, innards and feathers removed) 11 pounds. It was almost as big as a turkey and yet it was a regular fryer chicken.
Reply:it is the breed of chicken (hens) that they use. I have 2 chooks the white one lays white eggs, my black one lays darker brown eggs and the red one lays light brown eggs, so we always know who is laying eggs at our place.
Reply:i think it depends on the "grade' or something like that



ex. grade a eggs, grade b eggs
Reply:we have rasist chickens.
Reply:depends on the color of the chicken. white chickens produce white eggs, brown chickens produce brown eggs.
Reply:There are a few different factors that play in. Mostly the breed of the chicken. Some types of chickens even lay blue-green eggs!
Reply:Different breed of birds?