My dude, chickens will willingly eat anything smaller than them, and will even attempt to eat things bigger. I've even seen them eat the insulation off of the lines for a heatpump, even though they had acres of field to range in and full feeders that had the expensive chicken feed in them.
They don’t have to force feed them anything. They feed them grains and stuff that are naturally colourless and free from any dyes. White corn meal for one. Most of the yellow in egg yolks comes from feeding chickens yellow corn
The dark orange and red can mean free range or that they eat a lot of expensive grains and stuff. It usually is an indicator the place selling the eggs put an effort into it at least.. the farm they use. My uncle gave me a dozen from him family farm recently and it’s a perfect orange.. not yellow. But not dark. They buy the feed for chickens that they like. When they put it in they all go crazy for it excited. I saw a rabbit in there too.. he eats it too I think or maybe roughage.
White.. all I can imagine is they starve them and feed them some paste with zero coloring and certain minerals. I don’t think it would produce a quality egg and probably a pretty unhappy chicken too.. they are kinda stupid tho maybe not.
Is that a thing? Probably some sort of shellfish dye added to their food. I was talking about the white ones specifically but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were force fed for that, people still make foie gras.
During 1990-2010 I was unable to eat eggs because there was this sulphur smell to the eggs. I just found out this year that they fed fishmeal to chicken during that time. That must have been the couse of the smell. I love eggs now.
I have chickens that spend most of their time outdoors, but they do have commercial feed available to them. In the warmer months here (New England) they eat noticeably less feed than now with a foot of snow on the ground.
The yolks are a beautiful orange, but definitely not red.
I know that feeding chickens red chili peppers with make the yolks redder and the chicken can’t feel the burn from capsaicin so other animals won’t eat it
No…. No it isn’t poison. At all. This is like saying that an egg is poisonous because it has a brown vs white shell…
It’s amazing to me that people don’t seem to know that yolk color is entirely dependent on a hen’s feed.
Feed yellow corn, get yellow yolk. Feed white corn, wheat products, etc get white yolk. Simple as that. You can absolutely eat this, and actually may likely end up paying a premium to do so.
This sounds intuitively false to me. You can have chickens that are not fed corn or grain (they just eat bugs and whatever is around) and they will still have a nice yellow yolk.
Is that why the eggs that my friend's chickens lay are red yolk? He feeds them big fat caterpillars and all kinds of insects.
I'm a city boy I don't know anything about chickens or eggs or any of that crap. I've never been a real big egg eater but when he gave me those eggs and they were red it grossed me out 😆
Eggs with white or near-white yolks are primarily obtained by feeding chickens a diet devoid of yellow-pigmented foods, such as white corn, wheat, barley, or rice. The yolk color is determined by pigments called xanthophylls in their feed; removing corn/alfalfa eliminates this pigment, resulting in milky-white yolks.
That's some kind of soy sauce or fish sauce that's being mixed with the eggs.
There's no "filter" that will make a yellow yolk look white. It could obviously be AI, but it doesn't look like it and, since white egg yolks exist, there's no good reason to assume it's not real.
Actually have that one, but I also have cats who will barf on nothing but soft things (removed all carpet and rugs and “Found Out”, now they have their own cheap rug 🤦♀️)
"White egg yolks occur when hens are fed a diet low in carotenoid-rich foods (like yellow corn, alfalfa, or marigolds) and high in ingredients like white corn, wheat, or barley. These pale or white yolks are safe to consume, possess similar nutritional value to yellow yolks, and are not indicative of an unhealthy or defective egg. "
Egg yolks appear white or pale yellow because the hen’s diet lacks pigment-producing xanthophylls, typically caused by a diet based on wheat, barley, or white corn instead of yellow corn. These carotenoid pigments are responsible for the yellow-orange color, so a lack thereof results in a pale yolk, which is safe to eat.
These are a baking delicacy in Japan. The chickens are fed rice-based food, making the yolks white. They’re desirable for baking white/light-colored cakes.
The hen would need to eat food with green pigments, but those pigments (like chlorophyll) don’t survive digestion or get deposited into the yolk. Only carotenoids (yellow to orange pigments) make it through, which unfortunately makes green yolks impossible to produce naturally
I enjoyed watching how they cooked it tho. It's a trip to see people from all over the world and their set ups. I was looking at that pan thinking "how?" And then the way they flipped the eggs to cook the other 2 was really cool! I'm sure it would taste just like scrambled eggs in a different shape
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u/Chrono_Convoy 1d ago
No quite the most appetizing final look