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Default Are egg yokes from vegetaian fed chickens supposed to be dark orange?

On Fri 15 Feb 2008 07:26:08a, enigma told us...

> tbs48 > wrote in
>
> oups.com:
>
>> On Feb 14, 2:58*pm, John Kane > wrote:
>>> JW wrote:
>>> > I bought some of these eggs the other day. Never seen
>>> > them before. Mind you, they were close to the best
>>> > before date, but I've never seen dark orange yokes before. Should I
>>> > be concerned?
>>>

>> This is often the reaction of someone encountering a
>> 'real' egg. *The
>> birds have probably been eating real food. *However are you
>> sure they are 'vegetarian' as opposed to 'organic'?
>>
>> One should note that chickens will eat dead chickens, too.

>
> and dead mice, moles, voles, etc (my barn cats & the chickens
> are a deadly team). they also hunt & eat small snakes, frogs &
> salamanders.
> lee


hmmm... Predatory chickens!

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