Why are there different colored eggs, like white, brown, tan, and green?
Egg color is determined by the breed of chicken. White leghorns lay white eggs and Brown Leghorns also lay white eggs even though their feathers are very brown overall. An interesting fact is that you can determine whether a chicken lays a white egg by the color of its ear lobe. If the ear lobe is white the egg will be white, if it is red, black, or any other color besides white, it will lay a colored egg, brown, green, pink, etc.
