Comments on: How to Get Dark Orange Yolks From Your Backyard Chickens https://gardenbetty.com/how-to-get-those-delightful-dark-orange-yolks-from-your-backyard-chickens/ Gardening made easy, life made simpler. Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ken B https://gardenbetty.com/how-to-get-those-delightful-dark-orange-yolks-from-your-backyard-chickens/comment-page-2/#comment-66727 Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:55:04 +0000 http://gardenbetty.com/?p=5972#comment-66727 We notice the color difference starting in early spring when our chickens can start feeding outdoors (North Dakota). As the spring goes on the color gets deeper yellow to light orange to at times a deep orange red. Sometimes it gets so reddish that it makes the eggs unappetizing to eat (looks). This has been the result of massive amounts of grasshoppers the last two summers – easiest way to describe how many grasshoppers is to think of Pigpen on the Charlie Brown shows. When he walks there is constant stuff in the air around him. That is how it looked walking across our yard and pasture the last two years. This resulted in deep orange to red yokes for us. Our chickens would feed heavily on the grasshoppers. Not much vegetation due to drought – thus the grasshoppers – so it saved us a lot on feed costs. 40 chickens couldn’t make a dent in the amount of grasshoppers.

]]> By: DenTa https://gardenbetty.com/how-to-get-those-delightful-dark-orange-yolks-from-your-backyard-chickens/comment-page-2/#comment-55890 Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:53:45 +0000 http://gardenbetty.com/?p=5972#comment-55890 I am grateful for the research work and comments posted.
I’m a new poultry keeper, living in Masaka, Uganda, and I’ve been trying to improve my in- door chicken yolk color but un successful. Let me try one of them .

]]> By: Katie Jo Wright https://gardenbetty.com/how-to-get-those-delightful-dark-orange-yolks-from-your-backyard-chickens/comment-page-2/#comment-36266 Mon, 02 May 2022 20:10:19 +0000 http://gardenbetty.com/?p=5972#comment-36266 Hi! I have been raising chickens for almost two years, they free range in our ranch in TX, get first picks of all our kitchen and garden scraps, and I feed them whole grains and ferment goodies for them. I’d say they’re healthy an hippy chicks all the way, and they don’t produce dark orange yolks. I suppose the coloring could be subjective, or perhaps I haven’t cracked a store bought egg in a whole, but they just don’t look like the fancy rich colored egg yolks I see. The special carotenoid is interesting though, and the flame yolks too! Thanks toe post.

]]> By: Tex https://gardenbetty.com/how-to-get-those-delightful-dark-orange-yolks-from-your-backyard-chickens/comment-page-2/#comment-35939 Tue, 26 Apr 2022 22:00:41 +0000 http://gardenbetty.com/?p=5972#comment-35939 In reply to Peter Plantec.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470839/

Eggs are healthy.

]]> By: Ignacio Méndez Villa https://gardenbetty.com/how-to-get-those-delightful-dark-orange-yolks-from-your-backyard-chickens/comment-page-2/#comment-31620 Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:41:25 +0000 http://gardenbetty.com/?p=5972#comment-31620 sos im on my way to buena vista michoacan soon cant waight to hear from you again to stay in touch growing tomatoes and chickens later.

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