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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

once again - my doesn't your wife have small hands

I'm guessing this is an old hen? (or soemtiems young ones do it...)

I like doubles for a change. let us know how many yolks you get!

Now imagine a double yolker from a duck - even bigger than that!

I have had a few d. yolkers from young hens as well as older ones. There's something very special about them!

I had a 1.5 yoker a couple of times from one of my young hens

Was it definately a double yolker? I've had some very big eggs that I got all excited about and they turned out to be single yolks with lots of white!

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

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.

More eggs - more money!

Our young hens in their first season are producing double yokers regularly and we have had some triple yokers - and yes - did photograph them.

Having trouble getting into photobucket this morning so have not been able to post any piccies.

Our quail are the ones I feel most sorry for when they lay a double yoker. The eggs in relation to bird size - makes me wince just to think!

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