Eggs, yup it's about egg's...

cyberdoc · Jun 10, 2018

Hi All:

I was raised on a chicken ranch and can assure you that double yolk eggs are common, depending on the breed and age of the hens. I regularly buy flats of 2 dozen double yolk eggs fresh from Northern California ranches for $4.00/flat. Thanks and Take Care.

-cd

BowtieGuy · Jun 10, 2018

Yeah, me too, late to the party again.
GSS, it looks like you had quite an interesting breakfast this morning, I'm surprised that we haven't heard from our resident LPF "eggspert", Ears & Eggs on this unusual phenomonon.

:crackup:

Encap · Jun 10, 2018

According to the Guinness World Records, the world’s largest chicken egg, which was nine inches in diameter and had five yolks however as many as 9 yolks have been reported.

More common than most would imagine--you can even buy a dozen double yolk eggs as well

Benm · Jun 11, 2018

I suppose the trait to have double-yolked eggs has a genetic component to it, similar to having (non-identical) twins in humans seems to in certain families.

Given that i reckon they can breed chickens that lay double-yolked eggs by genetic selection if there is a market for such a product. A difficulty in doing that is that double-yolked chicken eggs are are unlikely to produce live chicks when fertilized.

So do select this trait you'd have to go along the male line, selecting on roosters that produce daughters that produce double-yolked eggs. This would be difficult to keep a viable line of offspring though.

It would be a bit like trying to make seedless grapes by attempting to plant successive generations: this doesn't work.

Unlike animals plants can be fairly easily propagated by grafting, and that is exactly how you get things like seedless grapes, watermelons etc: they are all clones. With plants this approach is very common, even many decorative plants are clones rather than plants grown from a seed.

Encap · Jun 11, 2018

Found these snippets:
"When you average out the number of double-yolk eggs from chickens of all ages, about one out of every 1,000 eggs has two yolks."
"Double-yolks happen more frequently in young chickens, when they're in their early days of egg-production—20-28 weeks old. These young chickens produce a double-yolk egg once every 100 lays."
"Heredity can cause some hens or breeds to have a higher propensity for double yolks, but it most often occurs in pullets that are just beginning to lay. It takes a bit for their systems to “get-in-the-groove” of egg laying. Typically, as hens mature, their systems settle down and they’ll produce one single-yolk egg approximately every 25 hours."

You can read more about it in Better Hens and Gardens :crackup: see: What Causes Double Yolks?

paul1598419 · Jun 11, 2018

Man, that was way more than I wanted to know about hens laying eggs. :crackup:

Lifetime17 · Jun 11, 2018

hi Paul,
It really went this far , go figure Lasers and eggs....LOL !!

Rich

RB astro · Jun 11, 2018

Yeah guys, like it's been mentioned double yokes aren't that rare but Pete I hope you win buddy.

As for chickens, don't get me started, I've raised over 10 Mill of them in my career as a 'chick magnet'. :crackup:
And I have used my 405nm to corral them back in at night, as Pete mentioned..... :crackup:

RedCowboy said:
What came 1st, the chicken or the egg ?

RedC, I can tell you with all honesty, the chicken came first, but that's a discussion for another thread.... :crackup:

RB

GSS · Jun 11, 2018

Way good info everyone

4 more double yolks in a row this morning for a total of 10 straight but didn't hit one number on the lottery ticket.:cryyy:
Encap, exactly what the link mentioned, all the eggs are unusually long an pointy..

Anyways i'll let this thread be till either the streak is broken or all 18 are double:can:

diachi · Jun 11, 2018

CurtisOliver said:
Peter got 6 Rich, surely that is unusual? :thinking:
Although I can't say I know much on the topic.

You can buy packs of eggs that all have double yolks.

CurtisOliver · Jun 11, 2018

It's rare to come across a double yolk here. Didn't know you could buy packs of them.

diachi · Jun 11, 2018

CurtisOliver said:
It's rare to come across a double yolk here. Didn't know you could buy packs of them.

Might be more of an American thing? I've never seen any like that either here or back in Scotland. :thinking: Read about it plenty of times though.

CurtisOliver · Jun 11, 2018

I just looked it up and it seems to be a thing that never really took off here in the UK. M&S started to in 2015, but have never came across them myself so didn't know anything about it.
It wasn't till fairly recently that some of our supermarkets started trialling wonky veg. We brits must be fussier with our food specification. :thinking:

paul1598419 · Jun 11, 2018

I've never thought of Brits as being connoisseurs of fine foods. Some of your delicacies are, to say the least, acquired tastes.

CurtisOliver · Jun 11, 2018

What fish and chips and pie’n’mash isn’t considered fine foods? :thinking:

paul1598419 · Jun 11, 2018

I was thinking along the lines of, oh say. haggis?!

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