Can you get brown eggs in America?

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1. Yes. Brown eggs are reasonably common but white are definitely the standard.

2. You can get brown eggs here as easily as white

3. Yeah, they’re available at any full sized grocery store plus farmers markets and such. If you just stop at a corner convenience store with a small grocery section they probably won’t have them but beyond that it’s easy enough.

   White is the standard, though.

4. Easily.

5. In most of the US white is the standard color, except in New England where brown is typical.

6. Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh!

7. Yep

8. Oh yes quite plentiful! White eggs are what you mainly see, but brown eggs are sold just as much as white eggs, Sometimes some cartons will mix both eggs.

9. Yup.

10. I grew up only eating brown eggs. It wasn’t until I started buying them by the 60 count at Walmart that I switched to white.

11. Conventional eggs are white.

    All the different brands of USDA organic eggs I’ve bought are all brown. They’re available in the majority of grocery stores. Even Walmart has a lot of organic food. The demand for organics has increased so much in the past decade that they had to get in the game, too.

    I just googled “why are conventional eggs white?” because I have been assuming they get bleached or something to kill germs. The answer is definitely not what I was expecting:

    *“When it comes to the eggs at your local grocery store, most white eggs are laid by chickens with white feathers and earlobes, most brown eggs by birds with red feathers and earlobes, although there are breeds where the reverse is true.”*

12. Yeah I only buy brown. Never not seen brown in a supermarket.

13. Brown eggs are available and widespread. Some people use white eggs for most things and bake with the brown ones. Egg color is determined, at least in part, by the breed of chicken. Most of our eggs in the store come from white leghorns.

14. In New England brown eggs are always available but usually cost about 10-20% more than white eggs.

15. Of course

16. Yes

17. I often get green and blue eggs from my local commercial grower. Do you get those there?

18. Yea. You do know that chicken eggs can be varying shades of green, blue, brown, yellow, white, etc. right?

19. Yes they are very common

20. Growing up my family always kept chickens so we got a variety of color when it came to eggs from different types of chickens…

    Although I don’t know how long they’ve been available in stores

21. The cheapest eggs are white because Leghorns are the most economical breed in terms of the amount of eggs they produce relative to the amount of feed they require, and Leghorns happen to lay white eggs.

    Brown eggs are somewhat more expensive because the most economical breed of brown egg layers isn’t quite as efficient with their feed. They’re still very easy to find, though.

22. Yes the US has a diverse egg population

23. Of course.

    It’s not like they’re wildly different. They’re just laid by different breeds of chicken.

    You guys don’t have white eggs at all in Australia?

24. I only buy brown eggs. That has been true in Kentucky, Colorado, and Nevada. In Germany, I bought what people had in small farmers’ markets.

    Since being in Nevada, I rarely buy eggs, but I am brought a mixture of brown, white, and blue eggs, just whatever my Grams neighbor has this week.

25. They are common. But much more common that when I was growing up in the 1980s. I just get whichever is the best price.

26. Brown eggs are just as common as white.

27. The default eggs are brown eggs where I am in New England. Some stores only special order white ones near Easter for kids to color.

28. Yup

29. The eggs in my typical carton include brown, tan, a greenish color, speckled, you name it. We raise chickens.

    At the grocery store mine will be brown or white.

30. [HuffPo – The Real Reason Brown Eggs are more Expensive](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-white-eggs-difference_n_5a8af33be4b00bc49f46fc45)

    >brown eggs are almost always more expensive than white eggs. Surely, this means they’re organic, more nutritious, superiorly delicious and blessed by golden angels, right?

    Short answer: no.

    >The shell gland pouch is often referred to as the “paint station,” because that’s where pigment is deposited on the shell.

    >All eggs start out white, and eggs that end up white simply skip their stop at the paint station. 

    They all go through the shell gland pouch, but white eggs skip the final step in the pouch that others go through..

    >“A white egg goes through the exact same process,” said Jones, but “there’s no pigment added at the end because [a white shell-laying hen] is just not genetically programmed to do that.”

    >Dresner provided HuffPost with Nielsen data from December 2017, which he said is a “pretty good proxy for the year in general.” Those numbers show that brown eggs only account for only 9.4 percent of the fresh egg volume sold in the U.S. commercially.

    >All [U.S. regions] heavily favor white-shelled eggs, except one: New England

    It’s 51% brown in New England, 11% in the Middle Atlantic states and lower everywhere else.

    >So, if brown eggs are laid by hens that require more feed, that would make the eggs more nutritious, right? Wrong again.

    >There’s no nutritional difference between comparable white eggs and brown eggs. If they’re both organic, or cage-free, or whatever other label you want to slap on an egg, a brown and white egg will have no significant nutritional difference.

31. Brown eggs and white eggs are available at most grocery stores. You might also get them directly from someone raising chickens.

32. Yeah they’re available everywhere here. I always get brown or blue, unless I’m buying super cheap eggs for my local crows.

33. White, brown, green ,blue, pink, and cream colored eggs. They all come from my chicken coop.

34. I prefer brown eggs. There’s always a good supply of them at the grocery stores.

35. Yes, you can get brown eggs in the US. Used to buy white eggs, but switched to brown eggs. They taste better than white eggs, in my opinion.