What Are The Odds....

[MargoTester]

I've just cracked 6 eggs into a bowl and every one was double yolked. I've never come across that before!

[Bazile]

I'd quit while your'e ahead

[Jackdaw33]

I have, 20 years ago. Bought them from a farmer's market stall and all six were double yolks. Went back week after week but sadly never again. There is an explanation for it but I can't remember it.

[gingejbee]

That's gonna be one hell of an omelette!

[Bazile]

Call me silly but i couldn't eat an egg with a double yolk - it just doesn't feel right .

It's like a chicken with three legs

[Jackdaw33]

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

[MargoTester]

Eggsactley gingejbee! I'm quite eggcited, Bazile you won't put me off I'm going to enjoy my eggstra large omelette

[Patsy33]

My Nan used to say there's going to be twins in the family if there was a double yoke after cracking an egg. Goodness, but not six! Surely?......

[RATTER15]

I used to keep chickens and we quite often had double yolkers, at the local market you could buy double yolkers any time, but they did charge a bit extra. The eggs can be scanned with a candler to detect them.

[Jackdaw33]

When this happened to me I had cracked three eggs to make an omelette. It did me for three meals.

[wendilla]

i always have my eggs from the farm and I have 1 Dozen extra large and mostly all double yoked every time .

[Jackdaw33]

funnily enough, reading my link, it would appear that you have more chance of finding 6 double-yolkers in a box of half a dozen than just one.

[Bazile]

Apparently jackdaws take other birds eggs

Do you engage in that activity Jackdaw ?

[Jackdaw33]

Not me. I just steal shiny objects, to which my avatar will attest. One of my favourite poems:

http://www.bartleby.com/246/108.html

[Bazile]

What's that - flippin war and peace :-)

I'll have a read later

[pastafreak]

I seem to recall reading that double yolkers come from young hens when they first start laying.
Ahhhh...it looks like Jackdaws link confirms that.

[Hopkirk]

What are this week's lottery numbers please?

[Cathyhuns]

I bought a box of extra large eggs from the supermarket recently (it's all they had) and all were double yoked. I assumed at the time that something about the double yoke made the egg grow bigger.