Is This a Double Yolk Record??

[xstitcher]

I bought 6 eggs about 10 days ago. Out of those six, five of them were double yolked. I buy the same brand every time and have never experienced even one double yolk until now.

[AB Editor]

Give this a listen xstitcher: http://www.bbc.co.uk/...mes/b017x76r#synopsis

It's about the probability of consecutive double-yolkers. It turns out it is as likely that you'll get another double-yolker after the first, than not.

Tim Harford is much better at explaining it though.

[factor-fiction]

Drat- I was going to give the same link.

[wendilla]

I get my eggs from the local farm and I have extra large which are all nearly double yokes.
They also do what is called Jumbos now and again which are all very large double yokes. I am expecting to see 3 yokes one of these days in the jumbos. Don't know if there has ever been a 3 yolked egg. I expect there has.

[beejay1124]

had a hen ,well on in years,not an everyday layer- but did produce a treble yolker on 2 occasions-was roughly the size of a goose egg

[AB Editor]

Great minds factor :)

[factor-fiction]

It's my favourite radio programme

[xstitcher]

What interesting answers. The knowledge available on AB never ceases to amaze me.

[beejay1124]

there has Wendi ^ :-)

[wendilla]

Apparently in the guinness book of records 2009 2010 there has been one with 9 yokes. and quite a few with 3 yolks and more.

[AB Editor]

I love it as well, although it doesn't quite beat Melvin and Laurie Taylor's programs in my "top 5 BBC podcasts" :)

[xstitcher]

Thanks for that link Ed. I have just read it and am kind of wiser although forget all those numbers, too many zeros in them for me to understand. I stopped understanding after 1/100. Anyhow I think I am a little wiser. Now I shall go out and hold forth about double yolks to my friends...I probably won't have any left (friends that is)by the time I am through.

[pastafreak]

I read up on double yolks a while back,after having a box where 8 out of 10 were doubles. I also seem to remember reading that there is also some sort of mechanical means of 'seeing' whether eggs are double-yolked or not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16118149

[AB Editor]

I'm sure they'll just think you're yolking.

[weecalf]

Take lots of photos and keep them in a ...........albumem get it

[paddywak]

In egg packing plants the eggs are "Candled" that is they are passed over a very strong light source which allows operatives to "see" into the egg and spot any double yolkers or eggs which have signs of hatching etc. these are separated, which is why you very really get bad eggs or double yolks in normal tore bought eggs

[AB Editor]

This is proven to not be eggzactly true Paddy in the link provided in the first answer.

[mike11111]

I hope we are not in for a series of egg jokes, it can be so eggsasperating.

[xstitcher]

You guys are gooooood

[Barmaid]

I can't listen to that thing cos my OH is yacking on the phone. However, when my number 3 first started laying she laid 6 enormous double yolkers on the trot. I did a bit of research at the time and discovered that it happens in a young bird who is first coming into lay and whose system hasn't really sorted itself out yet. I would imagine most egg producers take in a large batch of birds of about the same age and they will all come into lay at around the same time. Thus I would imagine the chances of getting double yolkers together are quite high.

I've had no double yolkers since the beginning. Although I did have one fart egg (a very tiny egg with no yolk) during the snow, which my girls HATED.

[xstitcher]

Luv it Barmaid !!! See Ed's link, it ties in with your explanation.