>I have found that eggs from hens that get to eat paleo have
>really orange,  not yellow yolks as do supermarket eggs.


>Maybe your organic eggs do have orange yolks,  get a
>supermarket egg and compare the color.  Watch for the egg
>yolks  to get more orange as the hens start to get new green
>sprouts in the spring;  If they do not get definitely
>orange,  search out a farm where the hens get to eat paleo;
>live bugs and green sprouts-  then look at the color and
>check the taste of those eggs.


I raise chickens, and the whites of their eggs stand up and are less watery
than storebought eggs, and the yolks are orange year round.  However, to
make that happen, I raise a huge organic garden and go to the Farmers Market
every Saturday, and the girls get generous portions of fresh collards, sweet
potatoes, apples, and other various greens and veggies at least 5 days a
week.  Probably costs me $3/dozen just to PRODUCE the eggs, but boy, do they
taste good!

In fact, for years I have made a 5-egg omelette on Sundays for brunch, and
once I started getting eggs from my own girls. the yolks had so much more
color and flavor, I was able to feed two of the yolks to the puppy, and the
3-yolk, 5-white omelettes were yellower and had more flavor than omelettes
made from 5 whole storebought eggs.  So, used like that, truly fresh eggs
from WELL-FED HENS can actually save on cholesterol for anyone who worries
about it.

Commercial chicken farms feed the cheapest feed that will keep the birds at
peak production, there is enough profit in eggs that this is a real science,
finding this minimum balance.  They use strains of birds bred for maximum
egg production, keep them confined to the nests 24/7 and under lights, so
they use up all their ova in eggs in a year's time or so.  They are
slaughtered after a year of producing so that the farm doen't have to feed
them if they aren't laying EVERY day.

I keep rare breeds that produce from 8-200 eggs a year, so I invest more
feed into every egg, and I give the girls quality feed.  They have a yard,
and if the fence contractor EVER shows up, their yard is going to triple in
size. I dump leaves or pine straw from raking the front and side yards into
the hens' yard, because there are bugs in the leaves and needles year round,
and the girls enjoy hunting the bugs.  They eat every scrap of grass and
weeds, so they won't have grass for long, although I planted grass seed
where the new yard will be, to give them a treat when they move in.

Storebought eggs are usually 6-8 weeks old!  Cold storage eggs. That's why
you can hard-boil them and they don't usually stick to the shell.  That's my
only complaint about my fresh paleo eggs, they are SO fresh, the cooked
white sticks to the inside of the shell and they can't be peeled as neatly
when boiled.

I like them soft boiled, and I have the Welsummers that lay VERY dark brown
eggs (look like I used brown shoe polish on them!  About a third of them are
regular brown with dramatic speckles on them instead of an even coating f
the dark brown.  Also gorgeous.) So, when I have a soft boiled Welsummer
egg, I feel like 007.  In one of the films (can't remember which) he is
served breakfast including a VERY dark brown soft boiled egg in a fancy egg
cup.  Kind of nice, to eat paleo and eat like James Bond at the same time!

laurie (Mother Mastiff) at Colorsplash Farm, rare breed chickens laying a
rainbow of organic eggs