GSHP
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Cream legbar eggsor more precisely their yolks. I have two cream legbars, this is their first year of laying, whose yolks are very pale. In the run with them, 42ft x 30ft, are 3 Light Sussex and 2 Dorking. All the other hens eggs yolks are a lovely dark colour. Is there any reason why the Legbars are so pale. Is it their breed, age, health ? It makes no difference to us, the birds appear perfectly healthy and both are laying daily it's just when I sell them I wonder if the customers have come to expect the dark yellow yolks and it would be nice to be able to explain why?
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colour it green
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how does the size compare? my CLB lays eggs with larger yolks than the others.. (not that she is laying now - she is looking decidedly like soup material...)
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GSHP
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 can't say I've noticed ..I'll go and crack a couple and take some photos.
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colour it green
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just thinking - that if they have larger yolks.. maybe that would change the colour.. or something.. less yellow to go around.. ok it sounds lame now i have actually typed it....
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VM
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I thought colour of yolks was to do with what they eat not the breed. Or is that just the taste??
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GSHP
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I think it is mostly down to diet. I've been trying to google for information and I think if I understand correctly it can also be down to genetics with a birds ability to convert certain foods. 
As all the birds run together and feed together, all look well and are wormed, I just wondered if there was another reason for them being pale.
I also read stress can effect the food conversion/intake and as these are bottom of the pecking order, if there was anything in that. Especially as since I introduced 3 new POL and the Legbars have moved up the pecking line the egg yolks are now getting darker.....I don't know think I have too much time on my hands and look for things that aren't there 
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bodger
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I've got LS and Marans of the same age running together and the yolks from the LS are much darker in colour, so breed does play a part. Whether its as simple as LS's simply having more of a liking for eating grass and the colour it gives, I don't know.
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pookie
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I noticed that our cream legbars have lighter coloured yolks too, so I'd concur that the breed has to have something to do with it.
As far as I know they all eat the same stuff, though I aint about to follow them around to check  
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Woodburner
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My silkies first eggs were disapoiningly pale, despite their being on fresh grass, but they have got darker, so maybe age has something to do with it as well.
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