No, we are not going to eat eggs with chili, that actually does not sound very nice at all. I fed the CHICKENS the red hot chilis and look! 
This is what happens when you feed the last of the chilis from the garden to the chickens – the laying chickens! Red-Orange eggs yolks! I put a pre-chili yolk next to the fresh one so you can see the difference. I got this idea from Jake and I thought it was crazy but there you are! The proof is in the pudding! Or the yolk as the case may be. Isn’t that gorgeous.
Chickens do not have taste buds as we know them so they do not mind eating the hot chilis. I am going to do this every year from now on. I love that colour – I want to paint it on my wall.
Today Hugo and I are going on an excursion and with Jake and John minding the shop we are not coming back until tomorrow. So there will be no page tomorrow morning. Unless of course (as usual) something comes up!
So I hope you have a lovely TWO days.
Love celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
41 responses to “Red Hot Chili Eggs”
I just imagined the burning mouths of the chicks until you told us that they have no taste buds. And you do not get the taste of it when eating your egg?? Somehow hot or so? Interesting. It’s really a super color. I’m somewhat curious about that excursion – but anyway have a nice time! 😀
That’s an amazing color!! I wish when I fed them pomegranates they would turn purple…LOL!
Beautiful color! Much love, Gayle, hoping your excursion provides you with all good things.
I give my girls dried marigold flowers – and their yolks are a real deep orange!
Interesting colour and fab idea. One of my chooks lays eggs every so often with yolks that have a definite green tinge to them, which is particularly unattractive. Goodness knows what she’s been eating.
A Doctor Seuss chicken!
Enjoy your excursion 🙂
Chooks are the most marvelous recyclers… once, we looked after a neighbors chooks for a couple of weeks and fed them festive season scraps -ham skin & fat, prawn heads, cake- plus the usual meat vege fruit scraps etc, as well as their normal feed. They waited for us at the fence in case there might be something else coming their way, and gave us the best brightest eggs.
Have fun with Hugo on your adventure. I never heard of red hot chilli eggs before, but the colour is wonderful.
*smile* Hate to tell you I have plenty of recipes marrying chillies and eggs! Luvverly!! Meanwhile have the bestest ‘farewell trip’ with Hugo . . . and do tell us about it later, photos and all . . .
chilis are an old farmer trick i learned yrs ago.
we use needle and thread to sring them up, then hang them up to dry,
or can use red cyanne pepper, or dry pepper seeds from the store.
when hens production drops in winter, crumble a few up in the feed.. large size hens can handle quite a bit, a few times a week, but bantam hens sometimes will die, if given too much at once.
my cousins will soon be here for deer season, they always bring chili so hot, it is a contest to see who can eat second, or 3rd bowlful,at supper. when they go home, i give leftover chilli to chickens.
my egg people all say, ”i see harry made his chili again this year.”
I grow chiles way too hot for the girls to eat. Maybe I can figure out some other way … hmmm … now you’ve definitely got me thinking! Cheers, C! ❤
How fun! Perhaps there’s a way to name a custom paint color…Farmy Pepper Yolk?
I’ve seen a colour difference in the spring when they eat tender shoots of grass. It’s all lovely. Too bad they can’t taste. I’m using liberal amounts of salsa verde on my food down here in Mexico. Ole!
Wowza, aren’t those beautiful egg yolks C. Imaging the color of pasta or cheesecake using those eggs! You and Hugo have a wonderful time for the end of his stay with you. I know it will be a sad parting for you but sounds like this week-end will give it a memorable one as well.
Holy cow! i had no idea! 🙂
Knowing nothing of chickens, save for what they look like and that they lay eggs, I’m surprised to hear that they have a taste for chillies…