White yolk

[sarahwvt]

Hi chicken loving friends! Wondering if anyone has seen this before. I cracked an egg this morning and the yolk was white! As you can see in the picture, the yolk is whiter than the white part. Any one know what this is all about?

Google suggests it's related to diet, but that makes no sense. 2nd picture is eggs laid the same day in the same flock (already scrambled, couldn't wait. lol) ,so all eating the same food. Color normally ranges from medium yellow to dark orange. This chicken lays regularly without any weird yolks. This egg was laid by an Americana (blue shells) and was small but not out of her typical range.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi there, welcome to BYC!

I have seen a platinum colored yolk before in eggs I bought on the road side once. Turns out it can be caused by things like feeding oats, wheat, or white corn. Do they happen to be free range? However there are other possible causes...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

I have never really seen a pre-scrambled yolk.. and when we experiments scrambling in shell it was very hard to get the yolk mixed into the albumin. What is the age of the hens? How's your weather.. extreme heat can cause funky stuff sometimes. What do you feed, including treats and supplements? Any lethargy, weird droppings, anyone not eating or drinking or acting "off" in any other way?

Adding your general location to your profile can help peeps make the best suggestions possible at a glance.

Hope it's a fluke and all are well!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Actually, diet is the right answer. The yolk is colored by pigments. Yellow-skinned chickens can get some of that pigment from their skin but that gives really light yolks. Most yolk color comes from what they eat. Dark green leaves can provide some pigment. Some fruits and veggies provide pigment. Some chicken Layer feed contains marigold petals to provide color for the yolks. That pigment can come from different sources.

Not every chicken that free ranges eats exactly the same thing. Different hens' bodies process what they eat differently, some are better at extracting those pigments (and certain other nutrients) than others. Those are some reasons you can get some variations in yolk color. Yolk color has nothing to do with how nutritious the egg is. It just demonstrates how much of those pigments they eat and how their bodies process them.

Can there be exceptions to this? Of course, there can be exceptions to anything to do with chickens. But the vast majority of the time the yolk color is based on what they eat and how their body processes it.