The great yolk color debate

[theuglyduckling]

And this are the results.
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The yellow is the most fresh organic egg found in my supermarket .

Crap thats dark! Do you free range too or is that just from peprika and feed?

 

[Kiki]

I need to read both of these (and I will) but just by skimming I am pretty sure that basil is SAFE.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/027d/4e7e658fc6061b2d31e8588acb8d59c1b526.pdf

http://www.savap.org.pk/journals/ARInt./Vol.1(3)/2011(1.3-45).pdf

 

[jolenesdad]

YAY!!!! My lovely neighbor has tons of basil that they were just about to rip out.

 

[Kiki]

YAY!!!! My lovely neighbor has tons of basil that they were just about to rip out.

Near the end of "the book" there is talk about vitamins and mineral and such.
How much it too much etc.

 

[jolenesdad]

I’m really excited thanks for sharing the knowledge @KikisGirls

 

[Kiki]

I’m really excited thanks for sharing the knowledge @KikisGirls

I like books but I love that book.
I think food is the number one most important thing...for both our animals and ourselves.

You are what you eat.

 

[Cyprus]

You are what you eat.

Amen.
Another variable is changing for me. I used up the last of my bag of Nutrena and am now using Purina. I don't think that will skew the results because I've used both before and the yolk colors have remained the same.
We shall see Peprika will be used as often as possible, although I am leaving for the next 3 days or so. In that case I may just mix it in with slightly moistened feed left out for them over that time.

 

[centrarchid]

@centrarchid uses paprika purchased in the larger containers at Sams Club. Rate is 0.1% of feed on a per volume basis so likely more cost effective than the marigold alternative. Manipulating the carotenoids (forms of vitamin A) only not likely to impact taste or flavor of eggs. When free-range diet is involved, then real difference in taste / flavor likely realized because fatty-acid profile also likely to vary with the color.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Yes seriously, I crush up the Froot Loops and mix in yogurt. Heck even Henry jumps in to the mix when otherwise he’d just be a lookout

Dat’s alllllot of sugggggar

 

[jolenesdad]

@Cyprus i don’t think so either, when I ranged the color had nothing to do with the feed they were on... it was all the goodies outside.