such as White Leghorns, lay white eggs and hens with reddish brown feathers, such as Rhode Island Reds, lay brown eggs. Shell color has little relationship to egg quality, flavor, nutritive value ...

The hens that lay white eggs are often White Leghorns, whereas brown ones are generally laid by Orpingtons or Rhode Island Reds. The latter breeds consume more feed because it takes more energy ...

while many of the white eggs are made by White Leghorn chickens, he says, noting, “Whatever color egg a hen lays at their first egg will be the same color throughout their entire life.” ...

The farm produces more than 200,000 white eggs a day. Some breeds such as White Leghorn chickens lay eggs with white shells while other breeds such as Rhode Island Reds lay eggs with brown shells.

White leghorn chickens lay white-shelled eggs, and breeds like Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds lay brown-shelled eggs. The shells are brown because a pigment called protoporphyrin is ...

Kingdom of 10,000,000 White Leghorns. Chickaluma. The Egg Basket of the World. These were all once nicknames for Petaluma, a charming little city in the agricultural bosom of Sonoma County.