They can lay five or even six large brown eggs every single week, making this breed of chickens one of the most prolific brown egg-laying chicken breeds. Other than during their typical six-week ...

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 deposited ...

Brown eggs simply have a pigment in the shell that white eggs don't have, he explains. Ultimately, the color of an egg tells you a little about the breed of chicken that laid it. Darker breeds ...