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Brown free range eggs are the only thing I buy. They are more expensive but I feel like they taste better. My husband thinks I'm crazy for buying the more expensive eggs, but I refuse to buy the white ones.

White chickens lay white eggs and brown chickens lay brown. I believe that's the only difference!

But all the organic free range eggs I buy do tend to be brown...

@.twist.: same!!

I only buy organic, brown, free range eggs!

I don't think that eggs are a differen color based on whether they're pastured or not. My dad has chickens and some lay brown eggs, and some lay white.

I always buy the white one cause they are cheaper. I thought they all tasted the same.

I buy brown eggs bc they are usually the organic, free range ones.

I've only ever bought white eggs

Mrs. Bee is right, my folks have chickens. A chicken with whiter skin lays white eggs and a chicken with browner/red skin lays brown eggs. There is otherwise no real difference in taste or nutritional value. If you want free range eggs, white or brown will be the same. Also keep in mind that free range and organic eggs can also be from big chicken farms. In fact, free range chickens are just those not in cages- a ton can still be stuffed inhumanely into a single room. Your best bet with that kind of concern is to buy local or have your own hens.

Interesting - I never knew that the colour of the chicken determined the colour of the egg!

I have only ever seen brown eggs in Australia so that's all we eat! And despite growing up eating white eggs, now they kind of freak me out a bit as I just expect eggs to be brown!

I J.U.S.T. found a farmer today that will sell me her free range eggs at $3/dozen!!!! We always buy free range eggs from the grocery, but I love the idea of getting it right from the farm even more (especially with such a great cost savings)

We're trying them for breakfast tomorrow, I'll let you know if they taste better

Brown cage free organic eggs. I had to buy DH his own cheaper ones for a bit though because he was going through a few dozen a week & I couldn't afford that many of my expensive eggs now that he's cut back we share!

@artbee: I get free range eggs as well, but i was really disillusioned after reading Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma. Free range could basically mean that they have a door in the coop that chickens could use to leave to walk around, but since the feed remains in the coop, it's unlikely that they leave.

interesting fun fact: On the West Coast people tend to favor brown eggs over white, whereas on the East Coast...it's the exact opposite.

And like others have said, the color of the egg only indicates what kind of bird laid it...nothing more.

Also as others have said, "Free Range" is often meaningless...just like the cute images of farms on egg cartons. Especially now (i.e. nearing winter) truly Free Range (at least according to the mental definition that most people have) eggs, are not very available. Eggs are actually very seasonal, and the only eggs available now are from chickens that live under artificial light. The light tricks them into thinking it's not winter.

If you're looking for better eggs, come spring, start looking for "pastured" eggs. These are eggs generally from small farms whose chickens eat grass. Most any eggs from the grocery store will not come close to being pastured or living up to the mental picture of chickens who live in a coop but can walk outside in the grass whenever they want.

Eat some decent eggs, and it will be hard to go back to what you used to eat...trust me.