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How do you get that deep yellow/orange yolk?
Just an "add on" to my suet recipe: I also like to add flax seed to this, as my hens often miss or refuse to eat flax free-choice, but will accept it in a "cake." Interesting that dairy cows and goats produce a deeper yellow butter when pastured and then give a lighter yellow butter when fed...- alpinefarm
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- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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How do you get that deep yellow/orange yolk?
Quote: Alpine Farm - would you share your recipe for suet cakes? I would like to make those for my girls next winter (I don't have any hens yet - chicks coming soon!), and for the wild birds too! Thanks. Sure~~it is my "feeling" that birds need fat in the cold months here in the high...- alpinefarm
- Post #24
- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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How do you get that deep yellow/orange yolk?
Yes, free-ranging and greens. And I use whole grains instead of commercial feed. In the winter, when we are deep in snow, I give my flock spinach (I can get a huge bag at Costco), broccoli, alfalfa/grass hay. I also started making suet cakes for them....and I add in spirulina and or chorella...- alpinefarm
- Post #10
- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock