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Why are american egg shells white?
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different breeds of chicken lay different coloured eggs. we kept chickens for years and we could tell which egg came from which individual chicken. all white eggs means all the same breed of chicken, which i think indicates battery farming, i could be wrong, maybe there is only one breed of chicken in america .
As treaclefight says different breeds of hens lay different coloured eggs. In the 60's most eggs in the country had white shells only a few had brown. Then people started to think that brown shells were better (and were willing to pay more for them) the result was that breeders changed over to hens that layed brown eggs. Americans seem to prefer white shelled eggs so thats what they get (both freerange and battery) >P>.
Interestingly enough, when Delia Smith's book was published with white eggs on the cover there was a hugh demand for white shelled eggs. No matter what the colour they taste just the same.