Organic farmer friends told me they had an aversion to orange yolks and a preference for yellow yolks. Until now I couldn't remember which color was preferred. But a local produce store had eggs from a place I've visited. The former JICA facilitator worked in Central America and now practiced the sort of mixed (animal/plant) agriculture he preached. He showed us where he ferments rice powder 米糠 leavings from the rice hulling process. He mixes in a variety of things. The one thing I remember is the bonito flakes and whatever else is used to make the soup stock at a nearby Soba buckwheat noodle restaurant. An old friend that makes a living for his family raising 50yen eggs had a special recipe for fermenting various things for a healthy chicken feed. It seems like the people that can avoid the store-bought corn-based feed raise eggs with a nice yellow color. The photo of two eggs has an older heirloom variety egg (orange, broken yolk) next to the KazuRan egg raised with hand-made fermented feed. The photos of three eggs are of my cute little Silky egg on the left, the fermented feed egg in the middle and a good-quality store-bought brown egg on the right. The Silkies here run around and augment their store-bought feed (along with old rice, and peoples' old wheat flour, rice flour, whatever) with bugs, worms, and leaves all day.

The silky egg on the left doesn't seem quite as orange as the store-bought egg on the right, right? It was nice to have a chance for this side-by-side comparison. It's hard for me to notice much difference. The urge to compare was a great excuse to make NiraTama ニラ玉 where you mix in chipped Chinese chives (Allium tuberosum) while scrambling eggs and fry the mixture. It must be healthy..

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