German chicken farmers are switching over to white hens in growing numbers, meaning that the brown eggs long familiar to German consumers could disappear from supermarket shelves in the coming years.

Why some chickens lay brown eggs and some lay blue, the chemistry of eggshell colour explained. By Carol Rääbus. ABC Radio Hobart. Topic: Chemistry ...

The chicks will be 12 weeks old by fair time (Aug. 22 to 26) and the hens should be laying brown eggs in a few months. They are sold in groups of six for $50, with additional birds available at ...

To do this, they took a commercial egg-laying chicken known as Hy-Line Brown, which is optimized to lay eggs. (These chickens can lay more than 200 eggs a year .) ...

Laying low: The Rhodebar (left) lays brown eggs so could be a favourite for Prince Charles. There are fewer than 100 breeding North Holland Blue hens (right) left in the UK ...