Thank you for posting! I just recently started eating eggs again after choosing a vegan diet for the last seven years. Definitely not in a position to steward any chicks of my own right now, so I head to the farmer directly, or to a farmer's market. I make the assumption that the chickens are treated with proper care, nourishment, y'know, let chickens be chickens. New in town, I just tried the farmer's market here ... booo to brittle white shells and pale yellow yolks. A sign of a poor diet, or living conditions?