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The chicken, the egg, and stress.

be well eat well Dec 08, 2020

What comes first? The chicken? The egg? or stress?

Well, that's not the question I'm answering today, but I do have a fun story to share with you about eggs and how the color of your egg yolks can tell you a little bit about your chickens! 

When I first began getting eggs from "The Egg Lady" who has a farm with pasture raised eggs in Napa, I was hooked. They were bright orange yolks and tasted delicious.  Then, one week, we picked up the eggs and the yolks were yellow.  Hmm... Did the chickens eat something different? Different chicken eggs? What happened? 

So we asked The Egg Lady and here's what she said: When the eggs are more yellow, it means that the chickens (or what they were eating) were stressed.  So, it got me thinking.  When we eat foods that aren't grown via nature, or if we eat in a stressed out state, or if we are chronically stressed, is the same thing happening in our bodies? Are our bodies not able to work as efficiently to produce the best results?

The timeline when the yolks turned orange to yellow was around the same time as all of the Napa fires this year. Hellooooo, stress! 

So, it makes a ton of sense that our bodies as humans are not only affected internally by stress, but we can literally SEE the difference in animals when they are under stress too!  

Now, this isn't to say that the only reason some eggs are yellow is because the chickens are stressed. Or does it?  

Commercially raised chickens/eggs are typically fed corn/gmo crop feed.  That would stress out any human body, so I'm sure it would stress out the chickens! 

Please, start sourcing pasture raised eggs. The nutrition inside that yolk is far superior than conventional eggs.  They may not always be orange, but at least the chickens were eating real foods, plants, flowers, and bugs, and not modified food product.

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