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Fox News Digital spoke to an egg expert based in Maine to find out why egg yolks come in different colors — and if these different colors mean anything significant in terms of nutrition.
We asked poultry experts to explain what’s behind the shade of your egg yolk, from pale yellow to deep orange.
The color eggshell is meant as a representation of the average color of a chicken egg. In interior design , the color eggshell is commonly used when one desires a pale, warm, neutral, off-white color.
In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue (basic color), value , and chroma (color intensity). It was created by Albert H. Munsell in the first decade of the 20th century and adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the official color system ...
Robin egg blue, also called eggshell blue or robin's-egg blue, [1] is a shade of teal (a blue-green color), approximating the shade of the eggs laid by the American robin, an abundant songbird of North America. The egg pigment is biliverdin, a product of the breakdown of heme. [2]
Lead study author Dr. Ernest Di Maio and his colleagues cooked 160 eggs, testing the different egg-boiling techniques and observing the changes in heat throughout each of the eggs.
Their small size and comb type makes them not especially cold hardy. Dutch Bantam hens make good mothers and will easily go broody. Uniquely for bantams, and especially ones popular in showing, Dutch Bantams lay well; they can produce 160 cream or white eggs in a year, though the size of the egg is much smaller than commercial layers.
Ayam Kampong hens left to forage lay about 55 [7]: 9 or 100 [4] brown eggs per year, with an average weight of 39 g. [7]: 9 The poor performance as an egg producer is attributed to the broodiness of the hens. [4] In meat production, birds reach a market weight of 1–1.5 kg in three or four months. [4]