Announcement April Fools 2016 - New Development: Chicken Feed That Changes Egg Shell Color!

[Yorkshire Coop]

I hope this goes world wide as it would be fantastic for my Polands White eggs

I would have a much more colourful eggs basket

 

[N F C]

I hope this goes world wide as it would be fantastic for my Polands White eggs

I would have a much more colourful eggs basket

 

[yellowherb]

NoDye Colored Egg feed

Cool. My chickens lay only white eggs. Now let's have a feed that will change my white chickens to pink! That would get my neighbors stopping in my drive way with jaws dropping haha.

 

[chickadoodles]

How eggciting! New egg colors every week!

 

[rebrascora]

As someone with a mixed flock I value my white leghorn eggs for their whiteness as much as the blue. green, brown and pink ones I get from my other birds. I personally can't see the point of feeding something that is going to make your egg basket all one colour..... just a different colour from what it is now.... I love the natural variety of egg size and colour as much as I love the variety of colour and feather pattern in my mixed flock.
In a world where we already have far too many additives, is it really necessary to be adding them to our animals' feed as well, especially for such a cosmetic reason? Maybe the next step is to turn dog poo blue or pink so that it doesn't seem so unpleasant to pick up and can be more easily seen!

I know.....There's always one party pooper isn't there!

 

[rebrascora]

@ chickadoodles

You won't get different colours each week. It takes several weeks of feeding for the colour to develop and then several more I would imagine for that colour to diminish and a new colour to develop. Unless you split your flock and feed different feed to each pen, but then you might as well just have different breeds.

 

[Fuzzy Moto]

I think Lucky Chooks

would be a great name for the feed if all the different colors were mixed together. Though it most likely is not really "organic" feed.

 

[DaCoonass]

Cajun Creole.

 

[Amelia Egghart]

I've heard of this product. They're totally all natural. For example, the pink eggshell line is derived from diluted red herrings. Great stuff!

 

[bcfpilot]

Neat idea, keep it natural and I'm on board. Aesthetics sell