How come we never get eggs with two yolks anymore?
Are they specially screened and rejected if they have 2 yolks? I haven't had one for many, many years now, and I eat eggs quite a lot. I used to love getting 2 yolks -it was like the time I had a kit-kat which was all chocolate and no wafer -a memory to treasure forever.
Where have they gone??
Answers:
I worked on a chicken farm, when I was growing up in the country. When the eggs come into the sorting plant, from the barns, we had a machine that would screen every egg, for size, and cracks..etc. Every egg would go down a conveyer belt, and an arm is set up, to put the eggs into the size bin, that it was. It was like an x-ray machine and you could see inside the egg, for defaults and not perfect. They would continue down the belt, if they were xx-large, and would get packaged as such. The double yolk eggs are around, you just have to buy the largest size you can find. Most packages with double yolks will be marked, "may contain double yolks" I have seen many triple yolk eggs, and once had an egg with 4 yolks. They are perfectly good eggs, and lots of people look for cartons with double yolks..Eat eggs, and enjoy..
You can get them if you buy them fresh for the farm, otherwise they are probably rejected.
they are on coffee break lolol
You're right! I guess everything has been so standardized, we never get any variation.
Someone would probably try to sue if they got one now anyway. <sigh>
they still exist i have seen them recently
i personally think it is gross when i see two
you need naturaly raised chickens to get you the eggs
maybe they come from china so it would be illegal to have two kids lol
I think they have the technology to detect two yolks - maybe it's seen as a defect? I still sometimes get the double yolk in my pack of dozen eggs. When I do find a double yolk, I almost always find another within the same package.
some stores still carry them
Why not? You can get them in any supper market.
because more twin chickens are born.
I guess
personally I don't think I ever had two of em before
maybe they are doing experiments
like stem cell research
or maybe a chupacabra got em ;-)
we got lots last year...eggie twins are still to be found.
It still happens. Just last spring I had an 18 box and each one had a double yolk.
I buy eggs called doubles. They are quite large and you get 2 yolks every time!
They aren't screened since a double yolk won't do any harm.
It's a condition that occurs in the chicken's reproductive system. http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html.
There are plenty each year, but you've probably lucked out and haven't purchased any.
It's the chickens!
Yep its the chickens alright, they have become really tight with their yolks.
I clucked around with one for a week and never laughed once.
Oh well I didn't know the answer lol
They are sold in supermarkets as 'extra, extra large'...
You need to go to a store that is not part of a franchise, the old ma and pa stores if they still exist. or stop by one of those roadside "farm store" things. Just look for the hand painted sign.
still out there-just rare to get one, last one i got about 2 years ago
No true.
Last year I had a half dozen eggs in one carton and all 6 had double yolks!
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. Usually a double-yolked egg will be longer and thinner than an ordinary single-yolk egg. Double-yolked eggs only rarely, and even then only with human intervention, lead to the successful development of two embryos [1].
It is also possible for a young hen to produce an egg with no yolk at all. Yolkless eggs are usually formed about a bit of tissue that is sloughed off the ovary or oviduct. This tissue stimulates the secreting glands of the oviduct and a yolkless egg results.
I have done but only with eggs from a farm, but then you can get the mutant massive ones from there as well they are really cool! Evil supermarkets take the fun out of everything!
You must buy jumbo eggs to get them I buy brown eggs and get them on occasion but they are more frequently found in jumbo or extra large eggs.
Yes they are screened, but for size. If you buy jumbo eggs you will often find double-yolkers.
Eggs are sold by weight believe it or not. A dozen large eggs weighs 1 pound, extra large weigh 20 ounces, medium eggs 12 ounces and so on.
i got one the other day i felt special
I brought a dozen from the store about a month ago. I had 6 double yolk eggs in the one dozen. What are the odds.
Nothing going cheep anymore
if you purchase them from a farm u might be lucky
we get free range eggs every week from a local producer, they are twice the size, taste better and at least 50% of them are double yokes. You may not believe it, but we had a triple yoke not so long ago. So you need to purchase free range to get more for your money
I haven't thought about these in years! That's a fond memory for me, too. I hated eggs as a child (still do, actually) but I remember when my grandparents would come visit us in Virginia from Ohio, my grandmother would fry eggs for my grandfather's breakfast, and it was always so cool to me to see a double-yolked egg. I do use eggs for baking and in other recipes, but I haven't seen one since I was a child, now that you mention it. :)
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Where have they gone??
Answers:
I worked on a chicken farm, when I was growing up in the country. When the eggs come into the sorting plant, from the barns, we had a machine that would screen every egg, for size, and cracks..etc. Every egg would go down a conveyer belt, and an arm is set up, to put the eggs into the size bin, that it was. It was like an x-ray machine and you could see inside the egg, for defaults and not perfect. They would continue down the belt, if they were xx-large, and would get packaged as such. The double yolk eggs are around, you just have to buy the largest size you can find. Most packages with double yolks will be marked, "may contain double yolks" I have seen many triple yolk eggs, and once had an egg with 4 yolks. They are perfectly good eggs, and lots of people look for cartons with double yolks..Eat eggs, and enjoy..
You can get them if you buy them fresh for the farm, otherwise they are probably rejected.
they are on coffee break lolol
You're right! I guess everything has been so standardized, we never get any variation.
Someone would probably try to sue if they got one now anyway. <sigh>
they still exist i have seen them recently
i personally think it is gross when i see two
you need naturaly raised chickens to get you the eggs
maybe they come from china so it would be illegal to have two kids lol
I think they have the technology to detect two yolks - maybe it's seen as a defect? I still sometimes get the double yolk in my pack of dozen eggs. When I do find a double yolk, I almost always find another within the same package.
some stores still carry them
Why not? You can get them in any supper market.
because more twin chickens are born.
I guess
personally I don't think I ever had two of em before
maybe they are doing experiments
like stem cell research
or maybe a chupacabra got em ;-)
we got lots last year...eggie twins are still to be found.
It still happens. Just last spring I had an 18 box and each one had a double yolk.
I buy eggs called doubles. They are quite large and you get 2 yolks every time!
They aren't screened since a double yolk won't do any harm.
It's a condition that occurs in the chicken's reproductive system. http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html.
There are plenty each year, but you've probably lucked out and haven't purchased any.
It's the chickens!
Yep its the chickens alright, they have become really tight with their yolks.
I clucked around with one for a week and never laughed once.
Oh well I didn't know the answer lol
They are sold in supermarkets as 'extra, extra large'...
You need to go to a store that is not part of a franchise, the old ma and pa stores if they still exist. or stop by one of those roadside "farm store" things. Just look for the hand painted sign.
still out there-just rare to get one, last one i got about 2 years ago
No true.
Last year I had a half dozen eggs in one carton and all 6 had double yolks!
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. Usually a double-yolked egg will be longer and thinner than an ordinary single-yolk egg. Double-yolked eggs only rarely, and even then only with human intervention, lead to the successful development of two embryos [1].
It is also possible for a young hen to produce an egg with no yolk at all. Yolkless eggs are usually formed about a bit of tissue that is sloughed off the ovary or oviduct. This tissue stimulates the secreting glands of the oviduct and a yolkless egg results.
I have done but only with eggs from a farm, but then you can get the mutant massive ones from there as well they are really cool! Evil supermarkets take the fun out of everything!
You must buy jumbo eggs to get them I buy brown eggs and get them on occasion but they are more frequently found in jumbo or extra large eggs.
Yes they are screened, but for size. If you buy jumbo eggs you will often find double-yolkers.
Eggs are sold by weight believe it or not. A dozen large eggs weighs 1 pound, extra large weigh 20 ounces, medium eggs 12 ounces and so on.
i got one the other day i felt special
I brought a dozen from the store about a month ago. I had 6 double yolk eggs in the one dozen. What are the odds.
Nothing going cheep anymore
if you purchase them from a farm u might be lucky
we get free range eggs every week from a local producer, they are twice the size, taste better and at least 50% of them are double yokes. You may not believe it, but we had a triple yoke not so long ago. So you need to purchase free range to get more for your money
I haven't thought about these in years! That's a fond memory for me, too. I hated eggs as a child (still do, actually) but I remember when my grandparents would come visit us in Virginia from Ohio, my grandmother would fry eggs for my grandfather's breakfast, and it was always so cool to me to see a double-yolked egg. I do use eggs for baking and in other recipes, but I haven't seen one since I was a child, now that you mention it. :)
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