Double Yolker Eggs!

guinnessgirl

I'd suggest trying your local farmer's market, if you have one near you - the Leeds one has a stall where they often sell boxes of double yolker eggs. And they are LOVELY! You might want to take a look at http://www.farmersmarkets.net/ to see if there's one near you. Good luck!

dormy

I get my eggs from a friend who keeps hers free roaming (she lives in a tiny, tiny village). One particular hen nearly always lays double yolkers and the eggs are that big you can tell straight away.

echo

i buy mine on the market.yes it is pot luck but most of them r double yockers.they have various sizes and the double yockers r 'jumbo's' me thinks.i've got a yolk in the fridge as i speak.deciding wot i can do with it....

Churchmouse

I get my eggs from a friend who goes directly to the farmer. The hens are free range, and the eggs always taste lovely. Every so often a new lot of hens are brought in and that's when I get boxes of almost all double yolkers. I always buy the extra large so that fits in. When my friend asked the farmer why we were getting double yolkes he said it was because the hens were only young, with raging hormones who didn't really know what they were doing!!:rotfl: Must say after a few weeks of almost all DY they settled back to mostly single with the odd double.

ben500

brokenwings wrote:

if you use a double yolker in baking
does it count as one egg or two?

One shouldn't make a difference but using a large quantity in a recipe would alter it considerably

echo

cuple of mths ago i posted on here abt scones i'd made.using a double yocker messed things up big time 4 me.i buy the cheapest eggs 4 baking now.

whistler-alison

Waitrose also sell them

dihaz

A few weeks ago we bought some extra large eggs from ASDA and all six were double yolkers.
The extra large ones are mostly double.

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

I was born on a duckfarm and was there till I was 13. Used to collect the eggs and size them etc helping my dad. All they do is put them under a special lamp and see the yolks through that, so they will know if double or not if thats what they are looking for.

There is no special breed of bird that lay only double yolkers. Some lay more than others but really is just luck of the draw unless stated when buying them.

PP
xx

Wirenth

One of my four hens lays the occasional double yolker. You can tell when she has because the egg is an absolute whopper (nearly twice the size that she normally lays)...and then I don't get another egg out of her for the next couple of days. Not that I blame her!