Double Yolker Eggs!

recovering_spendaholic

I have been trying to get my kids to eat eggs for breakfast instead of Coco Rocks and the other sugarry stuff they love. They won't touch porridge and so I thought eggs might be a good protein choice with some granary bread. I told them that when I was little my Dad used to always get us double yolker eggs and this has made them go on and on at me to try and get some. Does anyone know where I might find them. I asked in a couple of local greengrocers and they just looked at me as if I was a bit daft!

Browntoa

not sure you can buy them, had not seen any for years then got a whole box full about a year ago from Tesco's !!

think it's pot luck

found a web site with info

http://www.minkhollow.ca/HatchingProgram/Candling/Fresh/Double.html


apparently Sainsbury's might do them

Lillibet_2

I always thought double yolkers were a matter of luck? I've been looking for one my whole life, even the chicken farm where my eggs come from don't see them!

holstar

matter of luck... I never knew they existed until my flat-mate had 2 double-yolkers in a week and he was super-excited!

BrokeBrunette

I'm pretty sure it's just luck too.

A few months ago I bought some eggs in Tesco's and 4 out of the 6 were double-yokers. The kids were really excited about it, but we haven't seen one since

Murtle

Not sure if it's a matter of luck, I had never heard of them but my ex MIL used to buy her eggs from a farm, and they were ALL double yolkers I used to struggle stomaching them to be honest, they just seemed a bit weird - I always thought they were for twin chickens!!

Have just read a site on yolks in eggs - now for a really dumb question, would the eggs we get in shops if left to incubate become chickens or are they not impregnated (as I was told as a child??)

Quasar

Double yolkers are very rare. When I was a child, my grandma kept a largish chicken flock we always had fresh eggs - birds raised on healthy seed and grub they got from ranging freeling in the meadows...

Occasionally we'd get a double yolker, which tended to be a slightly larger egg than the others. But there was no way of telling a d.y. from the others, although today there might be special techniques to identify them.

susank

Like Brokebrunette I had organic eggs from tesco 2 weeks ago and out of 1 box 2 double yokers and nothing in the second box. Not had them for years before this and normally buy from a small holder and never had then.

thriftlady_2

They are definitely a matter of luck,the only way to know is by cracking them open.I had one from Tesco recently and it was my first ever.

Murtle,the eggs do have to be fertilised by a cockerel for them to become chickens.It's the same with humans it's just that our eggs are much smaller(thank goodness);)

jenniferpa

This probably comes under the category of more information than you want to know but: a double yolked egg will be larger, young birds tend to lay more doubles than older birds, and the overall incidence of double yolks is 1 in 1000. If you buy the largest egg you can from the producer with the youngest flock double yolks will be quite common. Aslo, a procedure called candling (essentially, shining a bright light through the shell) may allow you (or the producer) to select doubles.

Murtle

From various sites it seems to be luck or genetic, but this site seems to be more direct in its explanation.

"A double yolk egg is produced when two yolks are released rather than one. The production of double yolk eggs appears to be due to genetic factors. There should be no disease problems associated with the production of double yolk eggs."

I think it was genetic for the farm my ex MIL bought her eggs from as it was normal for double yolks and it was on a small island so more likelyhood of a genetics being continued.