How come we never get eggs with two yolks anymore?

Question

Are they specially screened and rejected if they have 2 yolks? I haven't had one for many, many years now, and I eat eggs quite a lot. I used to love getting 2 yolks -it was like the time I had a kit-kat which was all chocolate and no wafer -a memory to treasure forever.

Where have they gone??

Answer 1

I worked on a chicken farm, when I was growing up in the country. When the eggs come into the sorting plant, from the barns, we had a machine that would screen every egg, for size, and cracks..etc. Every egg would go down a conveyer belt, and an arm is set up, to put the eggs into the size bin, that it was. It was like an x-ray machine and you could see inside the egg, for defaults and not perfect. They would continue down the belt, if they were xx-large, and would get packaged as such. The double yolk eggs are around, you just have to buy the largest size you can find. Most packages with double yolks will be marked, "may contain double yolks" I have seen many triple yolk eggs, and once had an egg with 4 yolks. They are perfectly good eggs, and lots of people look for cartons with double yolks..Eat eggs, and enjoy..

Answer 2

No true.




Last year I had a half dozen eggs in one carton and all 6 had double yolks!

Some hens will lay double-yolked eggs as the result of unsynchronized production cycles; although heredity causes some hens to have a higher propensity to lay double-yolked eggs, these occur more frequently as occasional abnormalities in young hens beginning to lay. Usually a double-yolked egg will be longer and thinner than an ordinary single-yolk egg. Double-yolked eggs only rarely, and even then only with human intervention, lead to the successful development of two embryos [1].

It is also possible for a young hen to produce an egg with no yolk at all. Yolkless eggs are usually formed about a bit of tissue that is sloughed off the ovary or oviduct. This tissue stimulates the secreting glands of the oviduct and a yolkless egg results.

Answer 3

I think they have the technology to detect two yolks - maybe it's seen as a defect? I still sometimes get the double yolk in my pack of dozen eggs. When I do find a double yolk, I almost always find another within the same package.

Answer 4

Double Yolk Eggs are larger and most modern machines sort by size so you will most likely get double yolkers together in a box (lucky someone!).

Also double yolkers only generally occur in very young birds so there are much smaller percentages.

I'm lucky enough to have had several triple yolkers from my hens!

Answer 5

I brought a dozen from the store about a month ago. I had 6 double yolk eggs in the one dozen. What are the odds...

Answer 6

I haven't thought about these in years! That's a fond memory for me, too. I hated eggs as a child (still do, actually) but I remember when my grandparents would come visit us in Virginia from Ohio, my grandmother would fry eggs for my grandfather's breakfast, and it was always so cool to me to see a double-yolked egg. I do use eggs for baking and in other recipes, but I haven't seen one since I was a child, now that you mention it. :)

Answer 7

Yes they are screened, but for size. If you buy jumbo eggs you will often find double-yolkers.

Eggs are sold by weight believe it or not. A dozen large eggs weighs 1 pound, extra large weigh 20 ounces, medium eggs 12 ounces and so on.

Answer 8

I buy eggs called doubles. They are quite large and you get 2 yolks every time!

Answer 9

I have done but only with eggs from a farm, but then you can get the mutant massive ones from there as well they are really cool! Evil supermarkets take the fun out of everything!

Answer 10

They aren't screened since a double yolk won't do any harm.

It's a condition that occurs in the chicken's reproductive system. http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

There are plenty each year, but you've probably lucked out and haven't purchased any.