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Hattix t1_je907bt wrote

Reply to comment by BaBaFiCo in these eggs were not dyed; different breeds of chickens lay different colored eggs. by PoppyToffee

It's mostly based on diet, not breed.

That said, there is a tendency for some breeds to produce wild-type white eggs, but most commercially kept hens produce brown eggs today. You can make the white ones look blue by controlling the diet the hens have access to, so if you lower the fresh vegetable and insect component (so lower carotenoids) you get blue-ish eggs. And sick hens, but hey, they don't care.

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supplenupple t1_je9amuy wrote

You can’t get olive, chocolate and blue from dietary changes in one chicken

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Hattix t1_je9cg0w wrote

Nobody's talking about just one chicken ;)

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