Rich County Reaper | 1941-06-20 | Page 2 | Some Weed Plants Color, Flavor Eggs

some weed plants color flavor eggs keeping laying hens away from certain plants and limiting the cottonseed meal in their diet will prevent off colors and flavors in eggs poultry specialists of the bureau of animal industry report that if there is more than 5 per cent cottonseed meal in hens diet the yolks of the eggs tend to become mottled after the eggs have been stored several months the whites may take on a pink tinge cheese weed has a similar effect on egg white shep herds purse and field pennycress may produce a green color in both the white and the yolk it if chickens eat freely of strongly flavored it may cause an undesirable flavor in the eggs turnips onions garlic and leeks are among the worst offenders