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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Taste isnt really the issue. Cost is. Also environment, they will have to use more electricity to heat the "barn" in winter. That just adds more CO2 to our atmosphere. Thanks but no thanks. There are farmers markets where you can buy the eggs if you want orange eggs.
The reason the yolks are yellow has nothing to do with free range. It has to do with once the egg is hatched in a barn its taken away from the hen and heated so that the hen can lay even more eggs. I have had eggs from a chicken barn and they have been orange so I dont think that free range has anyhting to do with the color. The diet and supplements used might have something to do with it.
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Wrong. What a chicken eats has a lot to do with the color of the yolks of an egg. In fact, at one time, people never liked dark yolks, so then chickens were kept indoors and fed a completely dry grain diet.
When chickens are outside, eating grass, eating vegetable scraps and the like, they get dark yolks.
This is no different than the color of butter. When cows are kept indoors and only have a diet of dried hay, grains etc, the butterfat from the milk produces a nearly white butter.
On the other hand, when cows are on fresh green grass, the butterfat from the milk will produce butter that is quite yellow.
The taste of the eggs, milk, butter can be influenced by what is eaten by the animal as well. There is a reason a common annual weed is called "stink" weed.
That is the name farmers use because if a cow eats quite a bit of stink weed, you can smell it in the milk and taste it as well.