Yes, chickens can lay white eggs. In fact, white eggs used to be the norm until brown eggs became more popular. There are several breeds of chickens that lay white eggs, including Leghorn, Polish, Ancona, California White, Hamburg, Minorca, and Sicilian Buttercup
. The Leghorn breed is the most popular and readily available of all the white egg-laying breeds, and they lay large, white eggs practically every day
. Other breeds that lay white eggs include the Buttercups, Campines, Catalanas, Egyptian Fayoumis, Barred Hollands, La Fleche, Lakenvelders, Redcaps, Norwegian Jaerhons, Appenzeller Spitzhaubens, and White Faced Black Spanish
. The white-shelled egg is nutritionally the same as the brown-shelled version, and everything done to produce brown eggs can be done to produce white eggs
