Have you ever cracked an egg with two yolks.It happened to me before Christmas.If yes can you explain ?!
Answers: I bought a box of 12 and all 12 had two yolks. Subsequently purchase fom the same shop had only one egg in twelve with two yolk, By the way what the plural form of yolk?
The reason there were two yolks in the shell is because the chicken released two yolks at one time (or two before it made the calcium shell to go around the egg) which was then enclosed inside the shell. The shell is the last thing the chicken creates before it lays. My chickens will lay double yolks if they go a second day without releasing the egg they started the day before. Chickens don't have twins. If a double yolk were fertile and was incubated, it would die because there just isn't enough room inside the shell for 2 chicks. I'm not sure how the farmer could determine double yolks in every egg for the carton, unless you see a seam in the egg - which could mean it took the 2 days. My husband believes that if you candled the eggs, you may be able to determine which ones have double yolks - if the shells are white - with darker shells it would be harder. FYI Candling the eggs means get in a dark room and shine a very strong penlight flashlight against the egg. (I just candled about 4 store-bought white eggs and could see the yolk inside - what you see isn't a blob so much as a color change as the yolk moves from one side of the egg to the other - will appear a little yellower where the yolk is so the more yellow there is, then the farmer could determine the double-yolkers.)
well us humans get twins, why not chickens
Yea, I picked mine from Chernobyl
its yolks and you had double yoker eggs their pretty commen double the taste mmm
lol
Usually a genetic thing with the hens!
I buy my eggs from a really large market in sydney AU and there is a guy there who sells eggs that are rejected by the scanners in the factory. Double yolkers are always rejected because they are not standard. I love the richness of the double yolkers and my family get a kick out of them. They are not as uncommon as you might think, they are just often culled before they make it to the cartons. and plural is yolks
Twins?!
The plural is 'Yolks'.
Double yolks in eggs have two common causes.
One is that the hens laying the eggs are VERY young and have just started laying eggs.
The other cause is heredity- some hens are just more likely to lay double-yolked eggs.
In your case, it was probably a group of young hens.
Plural of yolk is yolks.
Had those eggs hatched, there would have been a large number of identical twin chicks!
Yes, you can actually buy eggs that are double yolkers, they are the best!
Eggs are usually xrayed and sorted by size and into double or single yolks, my local shop sells "double yolkers" alongside "single yolkers". The plural form is yolks!
No I have not ,but I would not eat it that is for sure.
i wouldn't it eat. sounds like a deformed chicken.
yes once i was making scrambled eggs and i saw two yolks i freaked out at first but then i didnt care i just ate it anyways
loads of times. my grandparents own chickens (free range of course) and two yolks are always popping up. it's great!
ps. i think the plural of yolk is yolks...but i could be very wrong =]
I raise chickens and everyone loves the fresh eggs for cakes and baking the best. I have two separate coups. I have one for my Rode Island red hens,and one for my Yellow bluff hens.That Scotty answer is right the chickens don't have twins. But it is my Yellow Bluff hen that lays the double yolk-er. And I only see 1/100 eggs. To get a hole dosen this way someone took the time to play a joke and saved all eggs that way.
They were twins!
plural: yolks;
it's normal, but for me it happened only with eggs bought from supermarket. from my grandma's yard, i don't remember to see that.
maybe it's because of the food, which i think is different.
the fact that you got all 12 with double yolk and then only one with double yolk.... i think it's rare, but not subnormal. maybe just a coincidence
Its theoritically impossible......
A healthy egg has 1 yolk with boundary defined clearly....
An unhealthy egg has a deformed yolk......
Hope you didnt eat it buddy!!!
well a retarded male chicken had sex with the female then had an egg and gave birtht to a retared double yolk and the famers didnt know any better so they put it in a box went to the shop you got them and opened it
wow
lucky you ^_^
the yolk must of just split in half. no big deal.