When you have all these sources incorporated into your chickens’ healthy diet, the nutrients they consume are transferred to their eggs and concentrated in the yolks. According to Mother Earth News, which conducted its own egg analysis, and another more recent study from Pennsylvania State University, free-range eggs contain high levels of vitamins A, D, and E, more beta-carotene, and more omega-3 fatty acids.
All of this means that a pasture-raised egg is the healthiest. And that’s one of the reasons we raise chickens, isn’t it?Livestock
So, how can we get those delicious deep orange-yellow eggs from our backyard chickens?
Let your chickens roam freely and eat whatever they can find in the ground to achieve that orange-yellow color.
Give them plenty of fresh vegetables to increase the lutein in their yolks. The darker the green, the better, which is why I often treat them to a feast of edible amaranth (one of my favorite summer vegetables), kale, cabbage, broccoli leaves, and anything else I can find in my garden. If it’s winter and green vegetables from the garden are scarce, you can feed them alfalfa.
Alfalfa is very handy at the end of the season when most of my vegetables aren’t very fresh anymore.
(By the way, don’t be fooled by the unreliable methods egg factories use, and don’t feed your hens corn. While corn may give your yolks that beautiful golden color, it has little nutritional value.)Food
After a few weeks, you’ll be so used to seeing orange egg yolks (just as most of us are used to seeing yellow egg yolks) that you’ll even forget they have
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