1. Poultry farm in Malawi 🇲🇼 Country in East Africa
2. Poultry farm is housed with DeKalb brown layers which lay brown eggs.
3. There is no nutritional difference between brown and white eggs.
4. Do you know the color of the shell depends on bird’s feathers & ear lobes.
5. The reason that brown eggs often cost slightly more than white eggs
6. Since the hens that produce brown eggs are larger species that require more feed.
7. Daily feed consumption of brown layer is around 130 gms as against 110 gms of white layer hens.
8. According to Tro V. Bui, a visiting fellow in animal science at Cornell University, “There is no real difference in nutritional value between brown and white eggs.”
9. He added, “However brown eggs have more Omega-3 fatty acids but the difference is almost negligible.”
10. White hen lay white eggs and Red hens lay brown eggs.
By -Dr V. Rajendra Prasad, Poultry Consultant, Hyderabad.
