Growing up in Germany, eggs had so many colours but rarely white. Farmers even changed the food to get more coloured eggs e.g. by feeding cockchafers. On Easter, people searched for white ones for easier colouring.
Questions of health depended on industrial farming = bad or free roaming 'happy' hen of small farms = good. You couldn't see that difference in the colour, but often in the shell quality.
Petra van Cronenburg
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