wow doulble yolks

[middkazsam]

Tonight i decided to have gammon egg pinapple and chips for tea :)
whilst i was cooking chips my fella cracked two eggs into frying pan and both of them was double yolkers first time ive ever had one
Are they rare and do they have a meaning someone told me you only get one double yolk in every thousand eggs?

[puddicat]

no sign and no meaning arggh!!

[middkazsam]

oh right was not sure if it has a meaning can you get triple yolks ?

[jack daniels]

never heard of triple yolks

had double yolks a few times so far - especially fresh farm eggs

[garner]

We get free range eggs [ and I mean free range ] and often get double yolkers.

[ummmm]

I would have asked In A Pickle....

[pastafreak]

I once got a box of 10 eggs......and 8 were doubles. And Pickle is right...they can detect how many yolks an egg has....I don't think they are that rare.

[mrs.chappie]

I would have asked that question too, Mr. Pickle.

[sara3]

I'm pasting this from Wikipedia..

Some hens will lay double-yolked eggs as the result of unsynchronized production cycles. Although heredity causes some hens to have a higher propensity to lay double-yolked eggs, these occur more frequently as occasional abnormalities in young hens beginning to lay.[citation needed] Usually a double-yolked egg will be longer and thinner than an ordinary single-yolk egg. Double-yolked eggs occur rarely, only leading to observed successful hatchings under human intervention, as the unborn chickens would otherwise fight each other and die.[16]

It is also possible for a young hen to produce an egg with no yolk at all. Yolkless eggs are usually formed about a bit of tissue that is sloughed off the ovary or oviduct. This tissue stimulates the secreting glands of the oviduct and a yolkless egg results.

[ChuckFickens]

You'd be gutted if all you wanted was an egg sarnie and you're down to the lest egg and it had no yolk!

[sara3]

I'd cry.. I love the yolk. nothing tastes better!

[janetsflower]

they are not rare - we have our own chickens and get them frequently but the egg tends to be larger than usual which is probably why they arent so common in boxes of supermarket eggs, becuase they are graded and sold according to size so they dont stick a bigger egg in the box but grade them all together and sell them as double yolkers or extra large eggs

[natalie_1982]

I'm not all that au fait with egg laying processes - would it be the equivalent of humans having twins? And if so, genetically, some hens (or women) are more likely to have double yolks (or twin babies) than others?

[middkazsam]

Out of the box of six eggs we bought 4 of the egg's have now been double yolks only two more egg's left to try wonder if they will also be double yolks :)