It's No Joke, a Double Yolk
It's No Joke, a Double Yolk
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I love eggs, eat them almost every day. For years I've been making my own breakfasts, because I like a good solid western breakfast, not a Chinese one. It could be an omelette, sunny side up, scrambled, easy over, soft boiled, sometimes oatmeal with some pheasant eggs, although now and then my wife does make a great souffle or egg pancakes that contain chopped greens.
A few days ago my wife visited her older brother on the family farm out in rural Chongqing, and came back with a big basketfull of eggs - goose eggs, duck eggs and chicken eggs. This morning I was going to make scrambled eggs and cracked open two equal-sized duck eggs. What I saw amazed me. One was the usual single yolk while the other was two smaller yolks. I have to say that never in my life have I seen a double yolk before. So I looked it up, and apparently it isn't THAT unusual, it's a 1 in a 1000 thing.
Double Yolk Eggs: Causes, Safety and Other Egg Laying Anomalies
Double Yolk Eggs
Double yolks are fairly uncommon.
Around one in one thousand eggs will be a double yolk.
What happens is that a yolk is released and then another is released within a couple of hours.
These two yolks get encased in one shell.
Needless to say, this is a large egg that can cause problems like egg binding .
Fortunately, most hens seem to lay these monster eggs without mishaps.
The issue can be hereditary, but it is most common in production pullets just coming into lay, and occasionally older layers coming to the end of their cycle.
The younger pullets coming into lay suffer from hormone change and imbalance, which can cause the double yolk phenomenon.
Once they have settled into their routine laying pattern, double yolks should disappear and replace regular eggs.
If you were to buy your eggs from the supermarket here in the US, you would never see a double yolk egg – they are considered ‘imperfections’ by the industry.
In the UK, it is possible to find them in the supermarket.
If you were wondering it is possible to hatch out a double yolk egg, the answer is usually not, although it has happened.
If they do hatch, one chick usually succumbs since oxygen inside the shell is limited, and the stronger chick will survive.
There are rare instances of both chicks hatching, but no follow-up information on how they thrive.
LINK -> Double Yolk Eggs: Causes, Safety and Other Egg Laying Anomalies - The Happy Chicken Coop
As the article said, supermarkets usually don't sell them (except in England) and I'll assume Canadian ones and Chinese ones don't as well so since these my wife brought back are right from the farm, that's why it was what I got. I didn't know when I looked at them and ate them that the aricle said about there very rarely twin ducks being born so what's REALLY weird, is that for the first time in my life I actually felt guilty for eating an egg(s) preventing twins from being born.
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Has anyone else ever cracked open a double-yolk egg?
Hi Buzz...yes, I have opened eggs with double yolks several times. My Paternal Grandmother lived in rural East Texas and raised her own chickens. One one of my visits I was going to make breakfast for my Grandfather who loved eggs, and I was very surprised when I cracked open the first fresh egg and was very surprised to see 2 yolks, as I had never seen one before. I asked my Grandmother about it and she said one of her many chickens often laid eggs with double yolks.
She said that she used them when a recipe called for 2 eggs and got good results. There didn't seem to be anything really odd about the chicken. I later bought eggs from a local farm at home and also got eggs with double yolks from time to time.
Apparently it's not so unusual as I had thought.
Likely not that common, given the vast number of eggs produced, but, not a real rarity. It appears to be dependent on the type of chicken, but, it's not just chickens. I had a pair of ducks and geese when young, and the lady duck would also lay double yolk eggs now and then.
The ones I've been getting these last few days have all been duck eggs.
Imagine if you bought an Ostrich egg and it turned out to have a double yolk!
Maybe even a quadruple yolk.
I recently had six of six eggs be double yolked...
Wow!!! Now you need to read this:
What are the chances of finding half-a-dozen double-yolk eggs in a single box?
LINK -> How common are eggs with double yolks? - Wilcox Farms
Geez what were you making? Never seen that before..
It's oven baked bacon and eggs for family.
Umm don't you just normally chuck the eggs and bacon in a frying pan? Never heard of it been cooked in an oven before...
Gotta admit it looks really good.. what's the black stuff on it, pepper?
For family? I could eat the whole thing.
The only oven we've got is one the size of a microwave oven. I've not seen a real oven here yet, but then I'm sure the big homes must have them.
Could the "black stuff" be ground bacon"?
It is a way to easily cook bacon and eggs for a group. First you cook the bacon in the oven then cook eggs in bacon grease.
It is lots of pepper and the pan is stained.
Evening..yes they use to be fairly common but not so much now.
The super market eggs often had double yolkers about 50 years ago..but now when they are processed they are run over a machine that can detect any defects in the eggs and they are discarded unfortunately..
Home grown chooks would be the common source these days...
If you were to buy your eggs from the supermarket here in the US, you would never see a double yolk egg – they are considered ‘imperfections’ by the industry.
False. I bought a dozen jumbo eggs at Kroger once and every one of them was a double yolk. I felt like I hit the lottery.
I had one in a dozen from Aldi a couple of weeks ago.
"Double your pleasure, double your fun...."
Maybe we're being misinformed by the article.
When it rains, it pours. I opened another one this morning, from the same batch.
Sort of like a "two-fer"
Yep.
And now a third double-yolk showed up this morning. All of them come from the same batch of duck eggs my wife brought home from the ancestral family farm that is still being run by my wife's older brother.
I was almost disappointed I didn't get a double yolk this morning.