Yolk colour

[Florence Fennel]

All you chicken keepers, could you tell me if the colour of the yolk can identify a happy bird? Reason I ask is that I buy free range eggs locally and the yolks are dark yellow. I couldn't get them this last weekend, so I ordered some from Asda (Happy eggs, advert's on the telly). The yolks are the lightest lemon I've ever seen and the cooked white was a bit "rubbery". Just wondered.

[chris]

Could be age, but greenery fed to the chickens (or, if they have access to, say grass) will give a more deep yellow/orangey yolk. I find the greenery makes the yolks thicker too?

I don't really believe in the 'happy hens' adverts etc.

Anyways, that said - one of my chickens once laid an egg with a yolk going on to be green! Greedy little cow seemed just to be scoffing all my veg plants rather than her feed

[Aberdeenplotter]

Anyways, that said - one of my chickens once laid an egg with a yolk going on to be green! Greedy little cow seemed just to be scoffing all my veg plants rather than her feed

Excuse me, cows don't lay eggs

[Suechooks]

Some feeds also contain yolk enhancer (ie Colouring)

[SMS6]

Before we kept chickens I always used to be sure and buy free range eggs so I am really surprised to see the huge difference in colour of our own eggs. I really hadn't ex
pected them to be so much darker yellow.

[Glutton4...]

I had to buy eggs on site this week - first time I've bought eggs in over two years. I'd forgotten how pale yolks can be!