The healthier the chicken, the healthier the egg. So can we determine the nutrition content or quality of an egg just by looking at it? Not exactly, but it certainly gives us a clue. Suggest a correction. Parchment, Wax And Freezer Paper. Thanksgiving Without Turkey? Newsletter Sign Up. We'll help you prep. Sign up for our new weekly newsletter, ThePrep, for inspiration and support for all your meal plan struggles. All rights reserved.
Seaweed is full of trace minerals that are very good for chickens. While in Ireland for a month last year I encountered a woman on a rather deserted beach collecting seaweed. Oh Linda, I remember those orange yolks! I grew up in Taiwan, and when you get eggs from the yard, when you crack them open, the yolks are orange. They taste soooo much better than the eggs you can get here.
Our dog was always on the watch, and the birds all know they are safe. The chickens kept our yard free of insects, centipedes, bugs, and baby snakes! Hated to- wanted them to gain all the carotenoids they could obtain by the percentage of grass in their diet but after years of not being able to keep them out of my flower beds, I elected to have them live in a coop area now. Supplement with hanging fresh greens chopped out of my garden and use deep bedding to provide them with daily scratching fun.
Now my flower bed is beautiful once again. LOL I know how you feel. I let my chickens roam the entire yard for over a year until they became too destructive on my vegetable beds. Thank you. I have seen yolks that are more orange than the usual store-bought yellow, but these were really deep orange.
At first I thought that maybe they were bad but I found this site. I cracked em open, no smell and so I went ahead and cooked and ate em. And they had a nice rich flavor to them. Might be easier and cheaper than trying all the vegetables.
Purine Layena has marigold extract in it to produce dark yolks. Marigolds are a source of xanthophylls, which I discuss in this post. For people mixing their own feed or using another commercial feed, the greens suggested are a great way to go plus they offer additional nutrients. I put a bundle of kale leaves, few bundles of broccoli leaves, a couple bundles of spinach, and some collard greens in their coop yesterday and this morning all the greens were gone They are not very enthusiastic about them at all.
They kind of just kick them around and not eating them. Any ideas on how to make them eat the greens? Also, I live in a city where they have limited space and time to roam and free range so I am thinking about buying live mealworms…will that be sufficient enough? Dried mealworms will do the same trick? Please advice! If your chickens have never been fed greens before, it might take them a little while to get used to them. I started by holding a few leaves and feeding them by hand when they were pullets.
Soon they started foraging on their own and eating everything green in sight! Celestine, I would suggest bunching the cut leaves and tying the stalks together. Hang them about the height of the chickens from a fence in the coop, post orb whatever. They prefer to pluck those greens that are hanging much better than when just lying on the ground. Good eggs are hard to find for those without hens not allowed to have them here. I remember the orange yolks from the birds in the country.
When using in recipes had to use half the amount stated because of the sticky yolks. I bought some eggs recently where the yolks were red. They tasted fine, but I was concerned. The lady said maybe they got into the dog food that may have had red dye. Any ideas? It sounds bizarre, but feed does affect the color of the yolk. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. We usually associate the yolk of an egg as being deep orange. Indians would know that more often than not, this is not the case. Most eggs we buy in the market are light orange or pale yellow. So what gives yolks their colour, and is any one colour better than the other? First of all, let us understand what causes the yolk to be a dark or a light shade of orange.
The colour of the yolk has nothing to do with the quality or flavour of the egg, although yolks of different colours may possess different micronutrient concentrations.
But more on that later. The colour of the yolk depends solely on the diet of the hen, and there are certain compounds found in food that influence the colour of the yolk. Eggs with a dark orange yolk are mostly laid by pasture-raised hens. The colour of the yolk is influenced by a healthy and well balanced diet. Pasture-raised hens are allowed to roam on outdoor pastures, where their diet is supplemented by fresh grass and nutritious omnivorous foods like worms, beetles, grasshoppers, and spiders.
This diet is rich in carotenoids, which gives living organisms a red or orange colour, therefore causing the dark orange yolk colour. Any hen can lay such an egg if fed nutritious food.
Hens raised on a vegetarian diet lay eggs with light coloured yolks. Such hens are fed foods like corn, alfalfa, and beans, all of which are rich in a pigment called xanthophylls, which is responsible for giving plants and animals the colour yellow, hence influencing the colour of the yolk. This is the most common yolk colour. Hens that are fed a diet that comprises of foods low in xanthophylls, such as wheat , white cornmeal, or barley lay eggs with pale yellow, or in some cases even white yolks.
Hens fed more nutritious food will not only lay eggs with a darker coloured yolk, but the eggs will also be bigger in size. When it comes to nutrition, eggs with a darker yolk have been shown to contain higher levels of vitamins A and C, and omega fatty acids. However, although the macronutrient composition is the same for eggs with different yolk colours, we have to also take into account the size of the egg. A larger egg will certainly contain more nutrients because of the higher albumin and yolk concentration.
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