Do you keep livestock? Having any problems? Want to talk about it, whether it be sheep, goats, chickens, pigs, bees or llamas, here is your place to discuss.
This is a double yolker. You can compare it with the normal eggs.
My wife's other hand. The egg weighs 63 grammes, standard is 35 grammes. It is 70mm long and 50mm across.
Will be having it poached on toast with bacon this coming Saturday for breakfast.
I think the hen's eyes would be the same as my avatar.
Robin
'You know you are a hard-core gardener if you deadhead flowers in other people's gardens.
To err is human. To blame someone else, is management potential.
i was so exicted when we got our first double yolk a few weeks ago that i took a photo of it in the pan then i deleted it cos i thought i was being a bit sad wish i'd have kept it to show you now i know i'm not the only person who gets excited at such things
cheers, paul
please bear in mind when reading this post that i'm a taurus so prone to talking bull.
camillitech wrote:i was so exicted when we got our first double yolk a few weeks ago that i took a photo of it in the pan then i deleted it cos i thought i was being a bit sad wish i'd have kept it to show you now i know i'm not the only person who gets excited at such things
cheers, paul
Nooooo that's not sad! You know you are in a place here where you can have a good old conversation about double yolkers......and photos are even better
(I took photos of my first one too - doesn't everyone? )
As more utility breeds are being kept, fewer double yolkers are laid. It's bred out of commercial layers as the hen missed laying the day after a double yolker for obvious reasons. We seldom have one from our ISAs and Black Rocks.
Once upon a time, we had several big bad geese, and one of them would lay double yolkers on a fairly regular basis. The texture of those yolks, when the eggs were boiled, was so distinctive--I'd love a big backyard flock of geese, if I could find tiny muzzles for the aggressive ones!!
The double yolker did have two yolks of even size, but there was more albumen than normal. The hen that laid it is about 30 weeks old. One of the other hens that had stopped for the winter had started again, but the egg was only about 25mm. I should have kept the big one to compare it with.
Robin
'You know you are a hard-core gardener if you deadhead flowers in other people's gardens.
To err is human. To blame someone else, is management potential.
then i deleted it cos i thought i was being a bit sad 
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