Seems to be some debate over this topic. Just curious as to what some people on this forum might have to add...

Why use supplements when there are plenty of good food sources?
Liver and egg yolks are cheap and readily available.
Get yourself some chickens and a run and they will eat grass and bugs and you'll get eggs with a decent coloured yolks.
It's really becoming quite common in the UK for people to keep their own chickens on the grass. Cheaper than mowing the grass and you can see what your hens are eating.

Even though I have been eating farm fresh free range eggs for three years now I still can feel a difference when I add lecithin to my smoothies.

5 or 6 years ago when it felt like my mental abilities were slipping probably from stress, long work hours and a not so hot diet.... I could not type well, many errors.... lecithin turned it around right away.

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@ arrowwind...right on. @ ted..appreciate the feedback, i live in a condo in suburban-Denver...i don't think hoa would let me raise chickens on my porch, but if i had my own patch of land--for sure!

join a community garden and talk them into raising chickens too. No organic garden is rightly sustainable without animal manure.

I have a backyard flock, and also garden.

A general note about any animal manure: no manure can be considered a complete fertilizer, but so many gardeners do. The manure cannot contain minerals that are not in the soil that are producing the greens that the animals consume. You would have to feed your animals a mineral supplement along with added food. (Which I do.)

At some point, poultry will cease to thrive and reproduce if eating nothing but grass and bugs. Chickens are not like goats or cows; they need more protein, more solid food. If you want eggs almost every day from chickens, and for them to stay well, then they need a heartier diet. I'm not saying you didn't know this, I only want to emphasize this for newcomers to chicken-rearing.

People think it's normal for their hens to moult. I've been raising chickens for 12 years, and they never moult, even the old ones. I consider moulting (loss of feathers) to be pathological, caused by malnutrition. I am sure that virtually all the experts disagree with me. But I would like to know why mine never moult.