Double yoke eggs
 

In all my many years cooking, I'm 69, I have never opened an egg with a double yoke. Well, in the last 2 weeks I have opened 2. Go figure :D How often do you all run into double yokes?

I'm half a decade older than you and no double yokes yet. But I did return a cut of fabric in the last two weeks; the first in my 60 year sewing career. Happy Thanksgiving.

Jumbo size eggs often have double yolks...

When I had a few chooks I used to get quite a few doubles as they got older! Rare to see one in a dozen from the store. Lucky you!

Usually when I buy the flats of eggs I get a few double yolks. My Mom said it was a sign of good luck to find one.

I'm older than either of you, and in growing up in the country where we had our own chickens, double yolk eggs were not common, but frequent enough to not excite anyone. To me it was far more interesting to learn to dress a hen and find multiple small egg yolks inside, waiting to grow into eggs to be laid. I have never seen twin chicks hatched from one of those double yolk eggs. Just think of them as bonuses.

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*** I was raised in the country and we would occasionally find one.
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*** We had one hen (I guess her calcium was low) and she would lay an egg with
*** No Shell (just the inside sack).
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*** We always crushed the egg shells and put in them yard, chickens would eat and
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*** Recycled calcium.
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2 yrs ago, my dh got me an 8 pack of eggs. 4 of them, 4 had double yolks. I figured, somehow they switched the eggs with single yolk eggs. I went to play the lottery, but no winnings. go figure.

Kitse, what's a chook. thank god i never had to dress a chicken and find eggs inside her. as it is, i can't eat eggs if i have to make them. grosses me out. chicken abortions.

My husband always buys the biggest eggs they offer. so maybe that explains the double yolks.

not often but it does happen. twice in a week seems rare.

an egg without a shell. I'd never heard that.

I opened one with a double yoke last week. When I lived on a farm and raised chickens we had them quite often.

When I lived in Japan, I brought home a pack of eggs from the supermarket and all ten of them had double yolks. I wasn't sure if I was impressed or afraid!

When the eggs are candled they probably are taken out. Only now the factory must use lights to see through the shell. Raising chickens and buying farm eggs I've had a good many. When the kids were small there was always an argument over who got the double yolkers.

We have our own chickens & many of their eggs are double yolked. It's a nice surprise to get them.

My niece has chickens and so she gets them quite a bit. I used to buy my eggs from an egg farm and if I got the jumbo eggs they were common and the yolks were a lot darker too. The egg farm had a great reputation.

I have never dressed a chicken (wanted to kill a few for coming after me). Nor have I cleaned a fish. My DH knows if I have to do those things we will become vegetarians in a big hurry. He is lucky I can take the parts out the whole chicken when it comes from a store.

Saw them growing up because Mom had her own chickens and she kept the eggs in cool basement until the egg case was full (30 dozen) We ate lots of eggs and she made many angel food cakes (not box kind). Double yolks are No big deal to me, but I can imagine it could shock some. Yolks, it is. Never in my life have I seen an egg 8 pack though so you got me there !

I've had many over the years. I crush the shells and put in the yard for the birds to eat and they do. First though, they should be rinsed with boiling water to kill any bacteria.

We have our own chickens so it happens frequently. I think it is when chicken is a new layer.

I only buy jumbo eggs and there is usually one double yoker in every 12 pack. ;-)

I have seen a sign at the end of a farm lane advertising double-yolk eggs. Always wondered how they got them so consistently that they could be sure of a supply.

To the best of my recollection, I have never gotten one, but that's just as well. I limit my yolk consumption for cholesterol's sake. If I make a three egg omelet, the dogs get two of the yolks. They are always delighted.

I got one about 3 weeks ago. It was my 1st also.

if I remember biology correctly...those eggs are not fertilized, so no chicken abortions - just good source of nourishment for mankind.

I think we need to read about the newest thing on egg yolks. The cholesterol in the yolks is good for you IF it is eaten with the whites. A lot of things we were told a few years back is just not true. Now we are suppose to eat butter, eggs and lard. I've lost 30 pounds doing this. These things make me not feel hungry. I had no idea I was losing weight for about 6 months. That was not my goal. What I had to give up was sugar. That is what is making us all fat.

Eggs labeled free range, it's common to find double yolks. My grandmother raised chickens. After gathering the eggs, she would separate the double yolk eggs from the others. I use to check the gathered eggs for her. You uses a candle to check them. The taste of free range eggs can't be compared to the massive chicken laying houses. If I can't find local fresh eggs that get to roam and peck the grass I buy free range. Cage free doesn't mean anything so don't think you are buying from happier chickens. LOL

Get my eggs from local farmers here......one also "throws" in a duck egg or two occasionally..bigger, richer tasting....

We had a little party store near us when I was younger, a lot of their eggs had double, I don't like the whites, the texture is the turn off, so I always got my eggs there, I was in heaven , lots of yellow, yummy, I eat sensible but somethings going to kill me, and I enjoy what I like, Life is to short to live it miserble. enjoy an egg, eat butter, sweets once in a while,

Once we had a double yoke egg to hatch. The chick had 2 heads and 4 legs. Only lived a very short while.

I usually buy jumbo eggs and there are times that maybe 8 out of the dozen are double yolks. Not at all unusual.

A chook is another name for a chicken, Australian and New Zealand word.
Sharon

We always buy jumbo eggs & every dozen it seems has several double yolks in it. My DH says it is a sign it is going to be a great day!

Until a pullet (young hen) gets into a rhythm of laying eggs, she will lay some oddities. I've had some with no yolk, they are usually smaller. In a couple of weeks, the pullets will calm down and lay nice normal eggs. Younger chickens lay smaller eggs, and older ones lay larger eggs. But that is not to say that a young pullet will lay a very large double yolked egg. Did you cook it, sunny side up, and serve it?

I buy jumbo eggs at Trader Joe's and I average about 3 double yolk eggs per dozen

We always used ground oyster shell for calcium grit. Cleaner than used shells, since the bacteria was already baked out.

Oh, my!
I've never hatched any of my double-yolkers. Interesting.

We used to get them often, usually with hens that were beginning to lay. also got what dad called "pullet eggs" that were small, about 1/2 size.

Pullet eggs are from young hens. These are the first eggs they lay: very small. That's why the jumbo eggs usually come from older hens. I was amazed to hear what the double-yolk egg looked like when it hatched.