Double Yoke Eggs

[JES]

How common are they? We apparently have a chicken that is prone to laying them. I think we've had 4 or 5 so far and they've only been laying about 3 weeks.

[panhandlehunter]

I wish my chickens did. The yolk is my favorite part.

[Walker]

When my daughters production reds first.started laying she got several of these. None now.

[BlackHogDown]

My brother studied poultry science and is in vet school at Auburn and we just had this talk this past weekend after finding one in an "extra large" egg carton. Apparently its roughly 1 in every 1000 or .1%. Its caused by a hormone change/imbalance so some chickens are more prone to lay them than others. He says its typically found in new layers and older chickens. Pretty interesting

[jlp04c]

I had a quail chick that threw them fairly regular when she first started laying too... havent seen one in forever now.. haha

[SaltwaterSlick]

Out of the literally thousands of eggs my wife's "girls" have laid, I know of only one being double yoked..

[JES]

My brother studied poultry science and is in vet school at Auburn and we just had this talk this past weekend after finding one in an "extra large" egg carton. Apparently its roughly 1 in every 1000 or .1%. Its caused by a hormone change/imbalance so some chickens are more prone to lay them than others. He says its typically found in new layers and older chickens. Pretty interesting

These are new layers and the other eggs are tiny, these appear to be more normal in size. Hoping the others increase in size and the double yokes keep coming.

[White Falcon]

Just had 6 in a row out of 1 dozen, crazy!!

[BlackHogDown]

These are new layers and the other eggs are tiny, these appear to be more normal in size. Hoping the others increase in size and the double yokes keep coming.

By "extra large", I meant the size on the carton bought at HEB. I'm guessing hormones given to the birds cause it. Though, the double-yolked eggs will be slightly larger as well. Judging by the other responses, I'd say the double-yolks quit as the chickens mature a bit.

[wal1809]

I have a hen that double yolks everytime. She has been going strong for a year now.

[4_Fingers]

Grandfather had a couple (no pun intended) of hens that laid doubles regularly.

[Chew]

Double yoke. That's a lot of beef!

[MadHatter]

That's all my dad buys. 2 dozen, double yolk, every time. They eat just as good.

[Low Fence]

After6 years of amateur bodybuilding I've bought 100's of cases of eggs and got 1 (they screen for them, doubles go to bakery's)

Now my father in law gives me 5-6 dozen a month and I get them pretty often

[Biggun]

The extra large eggs almost have one in every other carton


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