Green Egg Yolks

Chickenmanjim7 said:

I had this happen to all of my chickens once.  It was during the winter and I was feeding them small bunches of alf alfa turns out there was some weed in it that turned the yolk green.

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cra-zchicknlady said:

I just found one of these, I've never seen it before. My birds are kept in an enclosed run, we throw them handfuls of grass everyday. I hadn't noticed anything different in what we picked for them. No acorns, no cottonseed meal. It's going into cookies, I'll post back if we die.

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cutiekk17 said:

For a while now we've been getting green yolks from a certain chicken. I don't know which chicken but the eggs that always have the green yolk seem to have a little swirl in them. Does anyone know what causes this? I've tried to look it up and i've read that cotton seed oil can change them. But they haven't been near anything like that and it seems like its only one chicken that lays the green yolk. They do get to free range for a couple of hours a day.

Also the green egg yolk doesn't smell but seems a little tougher than a regular egg yolk. I can't bring myself to taste it and see if it tastes normal though.

We try to set aside they eggs that we think hold the green yolk because we sell eggs every once and a while and i don't want anyone to get a green yolk!

Here it is (dont mind all the little bits in the white, its jsut bread crumbs)



All the green yolks next to a regular yolk

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