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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bought eggs recently in that country I work in, won't say where as not to be recognized, and the yolk was so orange it was almost red. That is because they were not fed corn. They probably ate bugs and veggies. It is a completely different taste. These eggs are not from a highly developed country.[/quote]

The free range heritage eggs are like that, the blue and dark brown kinds. Way darker yolk and better taste. [/quote]

:lol:  egg shell colors have nothing to do with whether the chicken was free range or what it was fed.[/quote]
We are talking about yolk color.[/quote]

Farmer/small egg producer here - Shell color has nothing to do with yolk color either.  Shell color is tied to the breed of hen and does not reflect what the hen's diet is.  Yolk color is tied to what the hen is eating (mostly, because big producers can and do manipulate yolk color by feeding ground marigold and other dye in their chicken feed).

But generally, free range hens during the summer will produce bright orange yolks which reflects a diet rich in beta carotenes found in foraged grasses and bugs and you should be able to taste that in the yolk.  During the winter, they still forage, but because the grass, weeds, and bugs that make up the majority of their diet, are dormant, the yolks will not be as vibrant colored - I try to supplement our birds diets with frozen spinach or other type of leafy green so they are at least getting something besides their normal pellets and scratch grains.    [/quote]
Which was exactly what we were referring to.[/quote]

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