IMHO really rare, but then happened with several eggs from the same batch.
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You can tell before cracking the egg?
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I think some chickens are more likely to lay them than others (due to age, or genetics). After that the eggs are somewhat larger, and you can check by shining a light through it
We once had a larger than normal egg from a local source. When we opened it, it was a normal single yolk egg with a tiny otherwise fully formed shelled egg inside it. The tiny egg had a tiny single yolk.
I got that once when I had chickens. You get all kinds of weird stuff. Every once in awhile I’d get an egg without a shell. Just the contents in a membrane. Still intact usually.
Did you check the other yolk with a magnifying glass?
Nope, mixed it in for scrambled eggs. The small egg was about quail egg sized.
I’ve been looking at too many maps of china this week…
Meh, it can be selected for. My parents had double yolk eggs on the regular for years, until the only supplier in my corner of the country retired. Now we’re stuck with boring single yolk eggs like everyone else ._.
I’ve gotten a few double-yolks from my chickens, mostly when they don’t lay for a day or two and pop out a really big one.
I got one with a spiral pattern in the shell the other day, like a streak of the wrong material got laid down during development or something. I’m not going to eat it, because I’m pretty sure it’s no good, but it’s cool.
And one of my quail that normally lays brown spotted eggs laid a completely white one last month.
Eggs are weird.
I once watched a guy who was working a Macca’s kitchen with me manage to get 11 in a row when we were doing breakfast
a couple of days ago I had an egg with NO yolk!
If you buy the XL eggs from the local farm shop, you’ve got a good chance to get some. I even got twins in all eight eggs once.
My neighbor’s had chickens and there were a couple who laid double yolks on the regular. They make the best scrambled eggs.
It is not rare naturally, so eggs like that are probably just sorted out on large farms
The way he explained it was, it’s rare if the chicken doesn’t usually lay them, but for some birds it’s like 50/50.
This happened many, many years ago as you can tell bythe quality of the image (almost certainly taken on a point and click, then scanned witha 10+ year old scanner)
You must be yolking
I’m never sure how to feel about these. Is it a good thing? I feel like it’s just extra cholesterol, and it throws off the regular yolk to egg white ratio. I almost feel like it’s not a win.
It’s great if you can get one when baking. Recipes sometimes call for 1 whole egg and one extra egg yolk
Eating cholesterol isn’t bad for cholesterol, saturated fats are what to avoid.
