Got chickens?

You should!  A few years ago I decided to add chickens to our suburban  home.  I began with calling our county and finding out the rules we can have 4 hens and no rooster.
 Next I began scrounging oops I mean recycling materials.  Next my wonderful husband and son made me our first little coop.   That spring we brought home our first 4 chicks after weeks in a large dog kennel we moved them outside.
Our girls are sweet and funny love eating left overs and garden scraps the youngest hunts bugs for them. They require far less work than a dog or cat and they leave me wonderful eggs 8-9 months out of the year. During the spring and Summer we get between 90-120 eggs a month organic laying food and grit cost about 15-20 dollars a month.
Needless to say I don't buy eggs very often,  however with fall setting in and having less daylight my girls like all chickens don't lay as much and sometimes not at all.  I could add a light to their coop but we choose to let the girls rest during the winter.

Fast forward the local store has Organic eggs on sale so I bought 2 doz thought I would get a jump on some holiday cooking.  I cracked the first store bought egg and thought weird this seems runny I cracked a 2nd my 15 year old said Mom this seems really watery.  I then reached into the the fridge and grabbed one of ours, please see the pictures below.  Our egg was dark almost orangey the white was thick.

I dont know what commercial organic chickens eat  but I think they need more greens how about you?