Now we come to chicken. Doesn't sound too exciting, until you start looking up just how many sizes and colors there are of chicken eggs. The Ameraucana chicken comes from South America and it lays a green egg or a blue egg and I've seen several shades of each. The brown egg goes from a very dark hot chocolate color to a very pair, just not quite white egg. Then you've got you're white egg. Not any difference nutritionally in any of them, but then you start with size. The banty chicken, being the "bantum" weight of the chicken lays super small, for a chicken, egg. Yes, there's one coming up. Then you go up the scale to JUMBO, and they can be larger than a duck egg. Commercial graders have laid the size out, so you know what you're getting, and if the recipe calls for a large egg, you had better use it, the results just won't be the same if you use two smalls. Genetics makes the different colors, and I could make a long list of which breed makes what color, but I'm an egg collector, not a chicken farmer.
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