Short Stuff: All About Egg Colors
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Why do chicken eggs have different colors?
Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and we're about to take you on a ride through a chicken's oviduct at some point in this episode. And why we're doing that is to explain why chicken eggs have different colors in some cases. And we're going to get really into the weeds on it, and it's going to be great.
That's right. And for this episode, we're going to pretend that eggs are not super expensive. Because we're going to talk about buying eggs and stuff like that. Right. And that's just a fact of life. Eggs are really expensive right now. So let's just put that to the side for a moment.
Well, we also have to presume that you can even find the eggs to buy.
Yeah, that's a solid point. This came about because I just went on our annual, fifth annual rather, Frigid Fiesta, which is my buddies and I try to get together and go to my camp on the coldest, one of the coldest days of the year. I make an MVC, Most Valuable Camper trophy. I earned that trophy for the first time this year. I'm very proud to say.
Congratulations. Wow.
Thank you.
What did you do to earn it?
Is there a nutritional difference between brown and white eggs?
I sous-vided some Wagyu steaks. I provided the camp. I think it finally dawned on everyone that that was kind of a big deal. I, you know, I partied in just the right way to impress everybody. Nice. And, you know, some other things. And that's generally how you win it. You kind of go above and beyond. And my comedy was on point. I was just on fire with the jokes. Wow. And DJing. Like, yeah, I kind of had it in the bag. But... Long way of saying my buddy Justin, whom you know from London, England, who raises chickens, he always supplies the eggs. And he showed up with some olive eggs, some brown speckled eggs, a couple of sort of light tan eggs. And I just started wondering about it. And now I know, and I told Justin the deal as well, why his chickens are making different eggs. Did he want to know that? Yeah, he was very curious.
Okay, good. Well, Chuck, one of the things that I think immediately pops up that we can't possibly get past without mentioning first is that regardless of the color of the eggs, I really hope this is true. One is not necessarily more nutritious than the other.
No, those brown eggs, you gotta get those brown eggs. They're natural, Josh. They don't bleach them.
You're thinking of rice or flour. Oh. Non-brown chicken eggs are not bleached. That is not true. That would be a really bad thing to do to an egg. The white eggs that you see that make up the vast majority of the eggs that you buy in the United States They come from leghorn chickens, as in foghorn leghorn. But he was a rooster. But the hens of his breed lay white eggs. They're not leached. They just come out that way.
Yeah, and most eggs in the commercial egg industry in the United States are from leghorns, so most are white. So when you see, like, a fancy brown egg, it's the same egg. Well, that's if it's, you know, not, you know, the pasture-raised and the stuff that were already expensive.
That's the one distinction, really.
Yeah, and we'll talk about that later. But a white egg is the same as a brown egg, nutritionally speaking. They come from the leghorns, Orpingtons, and Plymouth Rocks. Those are varieties of chickens. They're going to lay the browns. There's a chicken called an Americana, and not Americana because it has an A-U in there.
Mm-hmm.
That is a breed which gives the, it permeates, that pigment goes all the way through, and so the inside color of the egg is bluish as well as the outside, which is a pretty cool fact.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who are the hosts and guests of this podcast?
0:00–0:34
2
Why do chicken eggs have different colors?
0:34–1:40
3
Is there a nutritional difference between brown and white eggs?
1:40–4:21
4
What determines the color of a chicken's eggs?
4:21–5:33
5
How can you tell what color eggs a chicken will lay?
5:33–16:57
Speakers
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