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Lol I also.leaned that today, too. I bet we were looking at the same thread.

Same thing with flamingos, salmon flesh and hydrangeas.

Not happiness it’s the mineral makeup of the diet

It’s not just the colour the overall quality is affected. Shitty chicken feed can reduce the quality of an egg so badly that it becomes difficult to crack it into a pan without breaking the yoke, it’ll even soften the shells and make a fresh egg taste two weeks old.

You are what you eat and by proxy what your food eats.

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From the link, yolk colour is

>almost entirely due to the pigments in the chicken’s food. A diet rich in pigments will produce eggs with darker yolks

and they

>all contain the same nutritional value

Can’t chickens eat hot peppers to make their yolk darker? They can’t taste spicy

I'm almost certain that darker yolks have more taste.

just feed chickens bananas

Nah you just got placebo effected by a chicken fetus like a loser

Big Farma really sold you on that, huh?

Wow. I always wondered what exactly it meant.

I used to eat these super pale yellow yolk eggs and not surprising they were forever on sale and tasted like nothing.

They can't taste spicy, but it seems like my chickens don't really enjoy eating peppers too much from my experience feeding them scrap veggies.

Eat acorns, lay green yolked eggs. Taste ok, just weird looking.

Eyooooo

Can we feed them blue or green stuff to have blue or green yolks? Asking for a friend.

I learned this when I started making homeade mayo. I had to do a lot of egg brand shopping because there are so many shitty eggs.

"Some people think that eggs with darker yolks have a stronger flavour. We’ve tried all sorts of eggs with different coloured yolks cooked in all different ways and we haven’t noticed any difference in taste so far."

That right there showed me these people aren't worth listening to. Egg flavor definitely gets richer with a better diet which also effects the darkness of the yolk.

So what diet will make my chickens have the tastiest eggs ever?

Brb asking my chicken what she wanna eat so she could lay me some scarlet eggs

Speaking from personal experience raising chickens in the last couple of years, bugs, slug eggs, and lots of weeds.

My mom has a bunch of free roaming chicken. They're in the pasture and forest all day, and their eggs are incredible. Vibrant orange yolk, and the taste is so much better than any store bought egg.

This. Just commented on the stark difference between the pale yolk from store bought eggs and the vibrant orange yolk my mom's chicken produce. Now maybe it's not causation but correlation, but still. Orange yolks = eggs from heaven.

You learned that on reddit today

And the shell is determined by skin color (which you can see near the ears).

I buy free range eggs and notice the change in seasons. During warm months when the chickens are outside doing their thing the yolks are golden orange, and when winter rolls in and the foraging ends, the yolks end up a pale yellow like the usual factory farmed eggs.

Free range is just a marketing term ,they could be smashed together in a structure and a have a little window to look at and that would be considered free range. If you're buying from a store and you want the best quality pasture raised is what you want to look for

This. Free range doesn't mean they aren't pecking each others eyes out, or plucking out their own feathers due to stress/filthy living conditions...cage free is not the same as cruelty free.

While it's true that the diet effects the quality. The mistake people make is thinking that a darker yolk color means a better diet.

Big Farmer?

No. The more caroteen a chicken eats, the more orange the yolk. Considering that free range is the worst quality eggs in terms of animal life, you can legally sell where I live, and you think that a free range chicken is a happy chicken, I'm pretty sure you are not very well informed about chickens and eggs.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt did a test. He got a bunch of people, showed them different eggs before having them taste them, and they all unanimously agreed the more orange yolk tasted better and richer. Then he did the same test again, but with the people wearing blindfolds. The results got completely skewed and there was no winner. Now, maybe someone with excellent taste would be able to tell the subtle differences, but the average person definitely can't. Saying that though, visual appeal adds to flavor. So if a yolk is orange, it adds to your enjoyment and makes the egg taste better in your mind (which is why the first test had those results).

And commercial egg producers can tweak it with feed supplements to make the yolks whatever colour the market demands

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Ah, so you read this front-page thread from r/MildlyInteresting too.

What are the best?

I'm a friend who also wants to know but not THE friend.

Blue.

(j/k)

We’ve tried all sorts of eggs with different coloured yolks cooked in all different ways and we haven’t noticed any difference in taste so far

Sounds like something a pale egg producer would say.

Now THIS I didn’t know! Very cool.

I’ve noticed a big difference between regular eggs, and “pasture raised”. Thick shells, dark orange yolks, and very rich and creamy tasting.

It’s the same with salmon, they can be made darker with food additives that do nothing to enhance flavor or overall nutrition. Good eggs have vibrant color, but not all vibrantly colored eggs are good.

ALSO: the color of the hen's egg can be determined by the color of its ear! White-eared hens lay white, brown-eyed lay brown, & there are even blue eggs! And yup, their ears are blue!

Source: egg carton comes with fun facts

Seeing as the link is from the UK, there's a hen farm here called Clarence Court that puts paprika and marigold in their chicken feed, which helps make their eggs a really deep orange. They're pretty striking.

The colour can be manipulated by manifacturers. Deep orange indicates a more healthy, nutritious egg. Therefore farmers feed the chicken foods that will make the yolk that color.

Alfalfa seeds make green yolks too.

Big farma… big pharma…

How did none of you understand that joke lmao

Joke?

Did you read the words “big farma” and think that was normal?

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Give them a lot of carrots and they almost turn red. Freaked me a bit out when I first saw the result of my grandpa feeding them nothing but carrots

Carrots

IKR!! I came across eggs that were a deep orange (I love Eggs Benedict) while visiting in Vancouver and I was like, what kind of egg is this? I had only ever seen the yellow yolks. Found out they were completely free range eggs.

Bright orange marigolds will get you the bright, dark yellow, orange yolk. Xanthophyll, I believe. Marigold petals are used in chicken feed (from AN 102, Colorado State Univ, about 40 years ago).

Also the amount of sunlight, the yolks get paler as winter approaches.

Large chicken operations feed the chickens marigold or such, which overwhelms any other colour change.

Had eggs in the Mexican fishing town of Loreto. They feed their chickens a lot of shrimp scraps. The yolks are undeniably pink. Quite good too.

I've noticed that wild caught salmon are a brilliant shade of red while farm-raised tend to be paler. I notice a difference in taste too (unless it's just my mind paying tricks on me).