what do you use to make orange yolks in your eggs

[titus2mommy]

Thanks. I use the term "pale" loosely. They're still a bit darker than store eggs, just noticeably lighter than my others.

Jill in OH

 

[Tala]

I don't "use" anything, I just turn the birds out on the yard! Easy!

They also eat Purina feeds, with BOSS snacks and a little bit of corn and table scraps.

I also find that my Redstar's yolks are somewhat darker than my Leghorns', but not my much. They're all darker than storebought.

 

[cassie]

I give mine alfalfa. I can't free range my chickens yet because their run is not finished. I have a small hay feeder in the pen and I keep it stocked with leafy alfalfa. They go through a surprising amount of it and the yolks are a nice deep yellow/orange.

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

It's the dead of winter here and not a blade of ANYTHING green to be seen anywhere but I've STILL got great orange yokes. I throw a handful of cat food into my crumbles every day until the world starts growing again and that turns the trick!

HTH

Rusty

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

We make sure to never feed ours corn and soy. Although, I will feed a bit of organic corn as a treat if we have it.
They get good barley and fishmeal, and during the winter, to keep the dark orange color, we feed alfalfa, and extra calcium.
Free range in the summer.
Basically, any chicken that is confined, be it pen or cage, and fed only commercial feed, is going to have pale yolks.
They need to eat as close to what they would eat in the wild.

 

[Kim_NC]

We use any/all of the following: free range, leafy greens (letuce, cabbage, other cole crops), anything orange (cooked sweet potato, carrots, pumpkin, winter squash), alfalfa or grass hay, clover, cracked corn.

ETA: They do get meat scraps as well. But I'm not sure that really makes the yolks darker. I guess it does. Meat scraps have protein, like bugs and worms, and I do notice their yolks are a bit darker in Summer when they can find more while free ranging.

 

[trulefty]

In the fall I plant mustard greens, turnips, and collards and down here they are still growing. I pick leaves off all three and give to the girls . They also like the turnip roots.

 

[ZooMummzy]

I always though corn made the yolks more yellow? My girls get a lot of veggies and scratch every morning and I have very dark yellow yolks all the time.

 

[GardenWeasel]

Cabbage leaves, collards, pumpkins. May have to cut back cause my little white Easter Egges is taking on an orange glow.