Common chicken "wisdom" suggests that the more orange the yolk, the better the egg. A bright orange yolk implies that the chicken that laid it was free to roam in a pasture somewhere foraging for bugs ...

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NEW YORK — Thinking about backyard chickens as egg prices soar? Think hard, especially in light of the bird flu outbreak. Keeping home chickens as a pastime has continued to grow since the pandemic.