wow! a box of eggs and all are double yolks

[popsycal]

yes, i am bored
but it is not something you generally see these days!

I had a box of those once! Tescos large free range organic.

you do if you get them from the farmer's market

I asked the bloke why they double yoke and shop ones don't .. and listened to his explanation, then told DH why (cos he'd been buying sausages) .. and now can't remember a word he said

the greengrocers i worked always had doublers, great for boiled egg and dippers! not seen them for a while though

Twiglett, cause all his hens suffered from heavy periods

lol

the local butcher here sells double yolkers.....

that is what mine were soupy
tesco big organic ones

... I'm never eating another egg .. YUK

oh so they are common then
there i was getting all excited......
i need to get a life

Think it's because they come from young hens who have just started laying.

i would hget excited if i had a doubler

i had six doublers in one box

did you know that there's an old wifes tale that goes:

if you break an egg and two yolks coming out it means you're pregnant.

i am lol
but not with sextuplets!

sorry i'm bored and at work so have access to science journal search engines!! there are journal articles on double yolkers!!

heres one of them:

Poult Sci. 1975 Sep;54(5):1467-71.

Multiple-yolked eggs from a parthenogenetic stock of chickens.

Sarvella P.

The frequency of double-yolked eggs in a parthenogenetic Dark Cornish line of chickens was increased in certain birds. A line was selected that had a higher frequency of parthenogenesis and double yolks than the High parthenogenetic group. Selection within the double-yolked line appeared to have reached its maximum. The amount of parthenogenesis was higher in the offspring groups with embryos in both single and double-yolked eggs. The number of eggs and yolks from birds that laid a large number of double-yolked eggs did not differ significantly from the number from birds that laid only a few double-yolked eggs. Many triple-yolked eggs were seen in this stock as well as one quadruple-yolked egg. High frequency, double-yolked egg layers laid the same number of eggs, therefore, multiple ovulations may be due to a hormone or enzyme effect.

what does that mean lol???

extra hormones?
is it a bad thing?
i could do without extra hormones round here!!!

no idea going to look for some more!!

Only single yolks in my Waitrose organic ones. Bah!

I had a box of double yolkers once, bought froma supermarket. My idea of heaven because I love egss , me.

Found this

hmmmmm

???

we have had loads of double yolers lately - both from the local free-range farm and somewhere else locally. I thought maybe it was something to do with a time of year (never noticed it before though). They look kinda odd - sort of double waisted IYKWIM.