If you’ve seen Easter-colored eggs from farm stands, you’re not hallucinating. Breed determines shell color. White-feathered hens with white earlobes lay white eggs. Reddish-brown hens with red earlobes lay brown eggs. And Easter Eggers? They lay blue or green because of a pigment called oocyanin that gets added during shell formation. It’s like the chicken’s personal art project.
And no, brown eggs aren’t healthier, despite the price difference. They just cost more because the hens are bigger and eat more feed. Marketing, friends. Pure marketing.
