answer:Here’s the deep dark secret. All hardboiled eggs only peel easily only if they are several weeks oid. When I get freshly-laid eggs from the free-range chickens down the road, (brown, speckled, white and blue) I can’t get the shells off easily until the eggs have been in my fridge for at least two weeks and often longer. Use them immediately in scrambled, soft-boiled, fried and poached form until they grow a little gray hair.