Eggs-perts are weighing in on the color of your egg yolk. As Americans down an average of nearly 300 eggs a year, you’ve likely cracked open an egg to see a yolk slightly different than what you’re ...

There's something uniquely satisfying about cracking open a fresh egg. And often, the first thing that catches our eye is the yolk itself – a creamy circle of sunshine in the middle of the plate. But ...

A West County ‘Chicken Wrangler’ breeds exotic hens whose eggs are beautiful enough for any Easter basket. While families across America engage in the spring ritual of buying cartons of white grocery ...

Shaped like tiny ostriches (but without the gams), tinamous are well-camouflaged, drab-colored birds that lay some of the most eye-catching eggs: Their shells glisten with the luminous sheen of a ...

Hundreds of hens who lay unique pastel-colored eggs have been stolen from a family's farm just weeks before Easter. Gerald Leuschen, who hand-raised the chickens on Buddy's Farm in Sonoma County, ...

Common chicken "wisdom" suggests that the more orange the yolk, the better the egg. A bright orange yolk implies that the ...

Egg yolk color is not an indicator of freshness or taste The pigments in a hen’s food determine the yolk’s shade Hens on nutrient-rich diets like pasture-raised hens tend to produce darker yolks Eggs ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- You probably know them as "Hens-and-chicks," "Live Forever" or "Houseleeks." But their name really is Sempervivums, from the Latin semper, meaning always, and vivus, meaning ...

Strolling through a flock of free-roaming rust-colored hens, Christopher Nichols admits that no one truly knows whether his chickens are happier because they can strut around and wander outside. But ...

Many people develop strong preferences when it comes to eggs, with brown often viewed as the “better” or more wholesome choice. White eggs, meanwhile, get treated as the basic option. The assumption ...