Just cracked open 1 egg, found 2 perfect yolks? What does this mean?

Question

Took a picture of it, incase noone believes me....

I ate it, went down good.....

Answer 1

Double Yolkers appear when ovulation occurs too rapidly, or when one yolk somehow gets "lost" and is joined by the next yolk. Double yolkers may be by a pullet whose productive cycle is not yet well synchronized. They're occasionally laid by a heavy-breed hen, often as an inherited trait.

Double-yolked eggs are reasonably common for ducks and chickens, despite the fact that we so rarely see them in stores. It is estimated that 1 in 1,000 eggs (out of 50 billion produced annually in the US) have double yolks. Eggs increase in size as the number of yolks increases, but most of them are caught by "candling," or holding the egg up to a light source to reveal a shadow of what is inside the shell, and used for other egg products instead of being mixed in with single-yolks. Stores that do offer the eggs usually have one local source for them. The chickens, ducks and other birds that lay them have a genetic tendency to produce the eggs, so if a farm is stocked with such birds, most of their eggs with have double yolks. The eggs are popular with anyone who likes yolks and are also believed to be good luck by many.

Answer 2

Nothing to worry about. It's called a double-yolked egg. It doesn't happen that often, kinda like human twins. We used to have a few chickens just for their eggs, and got the doubles every now and then. Less frequent in grocery store eggs, so it seems. But still no problem.

Answer 3

It means you have a double-yolk egg! Egg inspectors usually catch them adn pull them out and group them together in a dozen, b/c they sell for a higher price. That one must have slipped by the inspectors.

My husband got one the other night making himself an egg sandwich.

If the egg had been fertilized, the chicks would have been twins.

Answer 4

You found a double yolk egg. Until the cholesterol scare they used to sell double yolk eggs at some farms. Rarer these days because all the "bad stuff" is in the yolk.

Answer 5

This isn't uncommon for young hens that are new to laying eggs. There's no real signifgance to the whys, it's just a weird thing that happens. If both were fertile it is extremely unlikely they would actually hatch into twin chicks- the egg just isn't big enough to host 2.

Answer 6

I cracked open an egg one time and found three yolks. Took a picture of it.

Answer 7

It's a sign of the Apocalypse! RUN!!

No, no. It's just that your egg is a twin. It's a pretty rare thing. I have seen double yolked eggs before.

Answer 8

It means you get 2 for the price of 1 and they are very good eggs

Answer 9

I had that same thing happen to me. I asked a couple grocery store people, and they said it's unusual, but normal, it's just twin chicklets,-twins. Think of it as 2 for the price of 1/one! Good deal for you, no worry.

Answer 10

Twins