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Is it true all the eggs you buy in the states are white/bleached white?

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Theres a difference between the insides too. I find the brown eggs to have much more yolk. Its noticeable when they're cooked.

We have chickens, and I fricken hate the brown ones.
 
Ive seen quite a lot of brown eggs for sale in supermarkets. And you're wrong, its not bleach, its just paint to the white ones white.
 
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Originally posted by: Eli
LMAO, bleached eggs...

Where do you people come up with this stuff?
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You'll have to excuse Dug, he's a bit slow. 😉
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It's not necessarily the OP that concerned me, but all the people that tried to confirm that eggs were indeed bleached.... lol
 
Originally posted by: dug777
Brown vs. white

The color of the egg?s shell is a reflection of the breed of hen. Breeds with white feathers and ear lobes, such as White Leghorns, lay white eggs. Those with red feathers or ear lobes lay brown eggs. White eggs are in high demand among most American buyers, but in certain parts of the country, particularly New England, brown shells are preferred. Breeds that lay brown eggs include the Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire, and Plymouth Rock varieties.

http://www.vitacost.com/science/hn/Food_Guide/Eggs.htm

cool thanks for pointing this out to me 😉 i googled it afterwards 😛

it's just i've never, evar seen white eggs here (Oz) 😉
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i'm only quoting myself so people who don't bother reading the rest of the post but the last one and first one can see it for a while :|
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
They don't bleach them. Jeez

They come from differebt breeds/ colors of chickens
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Does it ever amaze you the level of stupidity and missinformation floating around on the internet?
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Sometimes but I'm more amazed at the people who knew all about "bleached" eggs and even a little more amazed that after I posted everyone knew. :roll:

One is just ignorance. The other barring a few who might have actually known....well.....

The only reason I knew is because my grandfather raised them and explained it to me. Most people don't have that background or a reason to know so I can't blame them for assuming that they do bleach eggs. It doesn't seem that far fetched.
 
Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
They don't bleach them. Jeez

They come from differebt breeds/ colors of chickens
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Does it ever amaze you the level of stupidity and missinformation floating around on the internet?
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Sometimes but I'm more amazed at the people who knew all about "bleached" eggs and even a little more amazed that after I posted everyone knew. :roll:

One is just ignorance. The other barring a few who might have actually known....well.....

The only reason I knew is because my grandfather raised them and explained it to me. Most people don't have that background or a reason to know so I can't blame them for assuming that they do bleach eggs. It doesn't seem that far fetched.
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:thumbsup: as i said we don't get white eggs in Oz at all AFAIK 😉
 
Originally posted by: dug777


:thumbsup: as i said we don't get white eggs in Oz at all AFAIK 😉
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Yeah, but you people eat vegamite and I don't even wanna know what that is or how it's made. Eww. lol
 
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: dug777


:thumbsup: as i said we don't get white eggs in Oz at all AFAIK 😉
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Yeah, but you people eat vegamite and I don't even wanna know what that is or how it's made. Eww. lol
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Vegemite 😉

lol just yeast extract, i am surprised you don't have an equivalent spread over there...?
 
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: dug777


:thumbsup: as i said we don't get white eggs in Oz at all AFAIK 😉
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Yeah, but you people eat vegamite and I don't even wanna know what that is or how it's made. Eww. lol
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Vegemite 😉

lol just yeast extract, i am surprised you don't have an equivalent spread over there...?
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Being a yeast extract, it's extremely nutritious..

The analog in use(not taste) over here is peanut butter, I believe.

I don't think we have anything that compares taste wise.

I've never personally had it though.
 
lmao at the people who thought they were bleached.

Oh, and to the person with the greenish eggs - they're from araucana chickens.

As a matter of fact, I just picked up 20 new chicks for my wife as a mother's day gift on Saturday... (all egg-laying varieties of chickens)
10 R.I.reds, and 10 "sex-links" - chickens that can be sexed simply from their color at birth. All 20 are hens; and in a few months, I should have well over a dozen eggs per day.

I have some turkeys ordered that'll be in Wed... growing them just to eat them, although I may keep a tom for a little while longer to see how large I can get him... one person locally last year had a 51 pound bird for Thanksgiving.

Plus, I also got my wife a couple more peacocks for m-day.
 
Originally posted by: dug777
Brown vs. white

The color of the egg?s shell is a reflection of the breed of hen. Breeds with white feathers and ear lobes, such as White Leghorns, lay white eggs. Those with red feathers or ear lobes lay brown eggs. White eggs are in high demand among most American buyers, but in certain parts of the country, particularly New England, brown shells are preferred. Breeds that lay brown eggs include the Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire, and Plymouth Rock varieties.

http://www.vitacost.com/science/hn/Food_Guide/Eggs.htm

cool thanks for pointing this out to me 😉 i googled it afterwards 😛

it's just i've never, evar seen white eggs here (Oz) 😉
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The earlobe thing doesn't hold true, it's only a rule of thumb/generalization.
White store eggs are not bleached, they are laid white by production leghorns in battery cages.
Brown store eggs are laid by Leghorn/Heavy breed crosses. Usually a Leghorn/Rhode Island Red cross. They are referred to as "sexlinks" because the chicks can be sorted by color. Females are one color, males another. They are also battery kept.
Araucanas (a specific breed) lay blue tinted eggs.
Penedesencas (a specific breed) have white earlobes and lay a very dark brown egg, almost Hershey bar colored.

The Chicken Man has spoken.

 
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Crazyfool
Originally posted by: dug777


:thumbsup: as i said we don't get white eggs in Oz at all AFAIK 😉
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Yeah, but you people eat vegamite and I don't even wanna know what that is or how it's made. Eww. lol
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Vegemite 😉

lol just yeast extract, i am surprised you don't have an equivalent spread over there...?
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We do, we call it shyt. We don't eat it though. Sometimes we do end up with it spread on our shoes, but we wipe it off in the grass. We don't smear it on bread. (Unless we have a slice handy to wipe it off our shoe. But we still don't eat it once it's on the bread.)

 
I've raised chickens, and the color depends on the breed. Most of the chickens I had layed brown eggs, the game birds laid white, and I had one or two of a breed that layed green. There was one breed that layed blue, but I never had any of those. Makes easter a little easier 🙂
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
lmao at the people who thought they were bleached.

Oh, and to the person with the greenish eggs - they're from araucana chickens.

As a matter of fact, I just picked up 20 new chicks for my wife as a mother's day gift on Saturday... (all egg-laying varieties of chickens)
10 R.I.reds, and 10 "sex-links" - chickens that can be sexed simply from their color at birth. All 20 are hens; and in a few months, I should have well over a dozen eggs per day.

I have some turkeys ordered that'll be in Wed... growing them just to eat them, although I may keep a tom for a little while longer to see how large I can get him... one person locally last year had a 51 pound bird for Thanksgiving.

Plus, I also got my wife a couple more peacocks for m-day.
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Yep, they are Araucana. We also have golden Sexlink, Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red, black Australorp, and buff Orpington.

Beware--one of my Rhode Island Red hen chicks kept growing and growing and growing and started crowing after about four or five months. She never laid eggs, but is good at keeping the hens safe from predators 😉 They're not always 100% correct when they sex the chicks. heh
 
Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
I've raised chickens, and the color depends on the breed. Most of the chickens I had layed brown eggs, the game birds laid white, and I had one or two of a breed that layed green. There was one breed that layed blue, but I never had any of those. Makes easter a little easier 🙂
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Laid. 😉
 
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