Make eggs richer

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I feed Dumor 25% grower finsher crumbles. Snacks greens, egg shells, apples, banana, just any thing that we have left over that I think they might like.
Now my girls are just 26 weeks and just started laying eggs this Monday. I'am going to change there feed to a layer but I just don't know what brand I want to get. I would like to for the eggs to be richer tasting. Thank all of you for your post.

I also have 8 week olds in a differant coop and I would like to change there feed as well if dumor is not that good. They eat start and grow dumor. Thank you again!
 
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A lot of people on this board like the Purina Layena feed - it's hard to find in my area though so I go with the basic feed store 'Universal Feed Lay Pellets' bags.

I'm sure your eggs are already richer compared to store eggs by default though, as you are already free ranging them.

Make sure you get a feed with Marigold Extracts - its what makes the yolks get crazy bright and almost orange looking.
 
Free range is obviously the best thing to do for richer yolks, but I can't do that as much as I want to right now because of the short days. Recently just went to the local farmers and cleaned them out of butternut squash and pumpkins before they tilled them into the fields and that seems to be keeping the girls yolks nice and orange, and you know they're loaded with beta carotene! Cannot wait for spring and longer days!!
 
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Free range, for sure, and when they can't range as much, then supplement with armloads of fresh live weeds/greens/chickweed/nettles, etc in their run. Also, feed them some protein-rich snacks. I feed fresh salmon or fish scraps (b/c we have them), black oil sunflower seeds, or a couple scoops of live mealworms, etc. In addition, they get their regular flax-enriched 16% layer feed. The eggs I'm getting right now are really rich and flavorful; the yolks stand up tall, are bright yellow/orange, and super thick. Takes more work to scramble them, because they're so thick.
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When the ground is pretty frozen, sometimes I will throw some rabbit feed in their laying mash. This has a lot of alfalfa greens in it and they really like it. You might also try some really good second cutting hay....they will eat this also.

I have also found that my regular customers have gone ga-ga over my eggs even more since I started adding vinegar to their water each time. It seems to have removed altogether any sulfury, eggy smell or taste and they now taste rich and sweet. One of my customers says that she hasn't been able to eat eggs since she was young without getting an upset stomach but can eat my eggs without any problems.
 
Free ranging is probably about the best way to get those good ol' rich, tastey, yellow-orange yolks as this is their natural diet, bugs, green plants and grasses. But sometimes you just can't turn your chicken loose whenever and wherever you want, so we're stuck with what we've got to make the best of it. So a lot of vegetable scraps, greens, alfalfa clover, hays, and leftovers from meals added to a good type of laying mash is a good way to make those great healthy yolks. Another is things that contain Xanthophyll is what gives the yolks their color, which is derived from carotenes. Such as yellow and orange vegetables, and yellow corn and other grains.

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