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joggerjayne | 17:43 Wed 21st Sep 2011 | Food & Drink
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Well, as discussed recently, Mums (along with a few ABers) got some chickens.

Whenever I go round, they are trotting happily around the lawn ...

(do chickens "trot"?)

... or somewhere in the bushes.

Anyway ... I have a few of the eggs ... and the yolks are SO yellow !!

Like really dark yellow. Almost orange, actually.

Why is this??

And did any ABers get their chickens?

ps. Have you ever seen the size of chicken poo !!!!!!!!!
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Because they are fresh and organic and not bought in an Asda having come from some grotty battery farm
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Well, yes ... but I wonder why that makes them a darker yellow.
my eggs are bought in asda but definately don't come from some nasty battery farm.
they look more appetising don't they JJ, when they're a deep yellow? i've no idea why they're that colour though. maybe what they're fed on?
and yes, i have seen the size of chicken poo, phenomenal!
Cos you are not a good farm girl Jayne, a city dweller.......and not used to really fresh eggs (Ours here come from the farm next door, down a 600m track from the road).

Fresh eggs have darker colored yolks and whites than old eggs. The bright color of the egg yolk fades as the egg ages - partly because of extra oxygen getting in the shell. A pale yellow yolk and watery white mean that the egg has been sitting in storage for several weeks, or months.
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Yes, the poo ... I thought it must be a fox, or one of those little chubby deer things.

But no ... chickens !!!!!!!

How ???????
the poultry people have a different answer to this colourful question:
http://www.thepoultry...andbook/31/pale-yolks
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Well, thank you Mr DTC ... that was most enlightening.

I'm def not used to eggs as fresh as yours.

Waitrose usually does me.
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Waaaay too many technical words in that link, eth.
jj -getting ready for the big game tonight? Live on Sky or watch online at 7.45p.m.
http://www.whistlingt...rm.com/3.eggfaqs.html

yes as to carotenes dictating the colour, and yes the colour deteriorates with age as the carotene oxidises....the main thing be O2
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Yes, it's going to be jolly.

I sort of wish I was going now, coz I'm at a loose end (as you may have gathered, LOL)
It`s what they`re fed on. Probably corn.
so who are you playing tonight Jayne.....

anything come of the Plymouth invasion by the way?
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Mums feeds hers on a bag of mixed corn.

Plus peelings and things, and whatever they find around the garden, I guess.
My gran used to put grit in their feed. They love it and it`s good for their shells apparently.
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Well, Plymouth is this weekend.

Don't forget that the Leeds game is on telly on Friday, and we're all going to wear green.
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Grit ?
Isn't it something to do with the breed of chicken? The yolk colour I mean.
Any predictions tonight jj?

Brighton? Liverpool ?
Soz, are we talking about footie now?

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