Why are some egg yolks Bright orange while others are pale yellow?

The best and richest eggs have a nice orange color yolk...why are most of the eggs I buy (95%) usually the pale yellow%26gt;?

Why are some egg yolks Bright orange while others are pale yellow?
the freer the chicken so to speak (from caged to free range) the more orange they tend to be. Also there is a school of thought that the reason the more orange an egg is shows how little stress the chicken was under therefore providing a relaxed egg which is tastier.
Reply:Colour in egg yolks to a degree is influenced by what the hens are fed on. Hens fed a high maize diet will produce a more yellow coloured yolk.





It also varies per breed.





Free range yolks are most often orange as they are not fed so intense a diet as caged or barn raised layers.
Reply:They feed some chickens Marigold flowers to make them lay eggs that are more yellow. Same deal with chickens that have yellow skin.
Reply:That has everything to do with what the chickens are fed on
Reply:probaby diff eggs from diff chickens.
Reply:Free range chickens (meaning ones the can get out and scratch and peck away at what they want to eat) are the ones that have the orange yolks. The pale yolks are from the confined chickens that are kept in a building or very small fenced in area. These housed chickens are feed grains that we humans think that they should have.
Reply:That depends on what the chickens were fed.


My grandparents have a farm in Spain and they have chickens. The eggs are super yellow, like they are supposed to be, because they are fed good food. The pale yellow ones show that the chickens weren't fed good.
Reply:the way they were fed
Reply:Try getting some farm fresh eggs. They cost a little more but are so much better
Reply:it depends on how old de egg is, how the chick was fed n where it lived