Has anyone ever cracked "twin" eggs?!
Has anyone ever cracked "twin" eggs?
My sister lives in a small town outside Boston and one morning after I stayed over I offered to make breakfast. Well, 6 out of the 12 eggs in her carton had double yolks. She then told me that a few weeks prior she had a whole carton that were triplets! What the hell is going on there? I myself usually by organic free range but these were not. Is the food supply really that screwed up?
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That has never happend to me but I would freak out if I saw 2 yolks in one egg. That's double the fat. I wonder what's wrong with the chickens that produce the eggs.
Sometimes i do get twin eggs, however a whole carton of triplets could suggest a sort of imbalance back where they breed the hens at the farm. Initially i'd take this as a negative effect, and perhaps the farmers were 'experimenting' drugs or different hormones for better produce. I would avoid those eggs and that brand, its less riskay with the original one-yolk eggs :P
I'm not sure about the health aspect, but I have had one or two that have been doubles.
you will actually find more of those in "real" small farm free range eggs. I'm actually surprised that they were non organic eggs, factory farms usually screen for those because they want all of their eggs to be identical, same color and shape (creepy I think). Eggs are more interesting when they're all different shapes, colors and sizes. I just found out about double yolk eggs from a friend last week who had worked on a small organic farm and raised chickens, she said you could tell which ones were doubles because they were a bit longer than the other ones. Don't worry about the doubles, they're only unusual because we've been made to think that eggs are only supposed to have one yolk.
I havent had a double yolk in YEARS..Now Im jealous!! LOL!!!
wow, thats rare. maybe they are giving the chickens viagra.
Free range are way superior. Maybe you are just "really lucky.
Or maybe someone is getting ready to have twins.
Who knows. Occasionally, a hen will produce double-yolked eggs throughout her egg-laying career. 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, and will only lead to the successful development of two embryos with human intervention. If you sister is regularly getting double yolk eggs from the same source I'm thinking I'd wanto know if there is any intervention as far as the hen's diet and or hormones.
i have about sixty organic egg laying chickens and only every once in a while (like every six months) do we have "twin" eggs, so as far as you described "triplet" eggs i would guess that there is a chemical imbalance in the feed or the chickens. or maybe the chicken themselves have a chemical imbalance
I once cracked an egg open to find a chicken fetus in it.
No, I didn't eat it.
It's actually not unheard of for things like this to happen. It's just a fluke.
we used to be able to buy double yolked eggs. usually most farmers do not put them on the grocers shevles in most areas. you were lucky. i used to love making noodles and other pasta with them
i had a similar thing happen recently...i usually buy my eggs fresh from organic egg ranch but needed eggs right away so i picked some up from the local grocery store......4 of the 12 were "twins" and my daughter was grossed out!
reminded me why i buy fresh from the ranch...
I had one recently. The eggs were sold as extra large and were they ever! The one with the double yolk was about 4" long. I feel sorry for the poor chicken that laid that monster!
Double or triple yolk eggs are normal and have been around forever. In most cases they will be larger than the average egg, so are sold for commercial use rather than consumer use. Your sister just got lucky! Someone at the processing plant was making mistakes.