The owner of my neighbourhood shop sells eggs with double yolks, I mean all eggs with double yolks inside.?

Question

The shopkeeper says that these are hen eggs. Can anyone tell me whether these eggs are really eggs laid by hen as the shopkeeper claims or are these eggs laid by some other birds? How can all eggs sold by the person contain double yolks inside. If anyone has any knowledge about this please let me know and what species of birds lay such eggs.

Answer 1

These are just hens eggs.

Birds that are given a near perfect diet lay a lot of double yolked eggs. After a while you can pretty much tell the doubles by the size of the egg. After they get so big you know they are probably doubles.

This mostly happens with hens that are more than one year old.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Double yolk eggs are laid by hens. Just to give some basic biology here, the yolk is the protein source for the bird inside the egg. The white is actually what turns into a bird. The hen lays the eggs whether or not she and the rooster have had sex, see. The eggs you eat are not fertilized. The one that turn into chickens are.

The double yolk is very common in free range chickens. The eggs my mom used to get almost always had double yolks. They were prized things about 30 years ago. Now, with industrialized egg factories (henhouses) they are much less common because the chickens that produce them have been bred so that the eggs only contain one yolk.

Answer 3

people can have twins and triplets and so on cant they, why cant a chicken have mulitple yolks. I have had a hen lay an egg that was 14 oz. it had 7 yolks in it. However any egg that has more than one yolk, the egg cannot grow into a chick. some hens lay double yolks their whole life, others lay one every month, but most that lay them every day, dont live as long, due to the enormous size of the egg.

Answer 4

Yes, some hens do lay double yolk eggs. We bought some recently, large eggs and I found a double yolk. My mother used to raise chickens and we got a lot of double yolks. Your shopkeeper may be selling organic eggs which is good. Nothing wrong with the eggs.

Answer 5

Good Lord, you can't tell the difference between hen eggs and bird's eggs? Some breeds of chickens do lay double-yolk eggs, and apparently the shop owner either has the chickens or knows who does. What's the problem here?

Answer 6

The shopkeeper is right it is a hen that lays those eggs. but it is the type of feed that is being fed to the hen that makes the yolks turn out that way. if he is using a high fertility yeild grain then everyone of his eggs will have a double yolk in them. these eggs also turn out sterile. so if the chicken in those eggs are allowed to hatch it will not be able to produce eggs itself. Hope this helps you..

Answer 7

First things first...ONLY HENS LAY EGGS!....
Then there is the genetic tendency - of a particular bird to lay double yolks (remember yolks are effectively potential chicks .... therefore this bird's tendency is to have twins each time ....) - it's just one of those things ... like all the hens that lay single yolked eggs .....

Answer 8

Yes, they are hen eggs. Some hens are genetically able to produce double yolk eggs. he is telling you the truth. They come from female chickens.

Answer 9

If you hold them up to a light you can see the yolks and package them accordingly. I used to get eggs from a farm and oftentimes they had double yolks. I saw her chickens so I'm fairly certain they are hen eggs.

Answer 10

When I'm lucky enough to get farm fresh eggs, I find double yolks most often in the Spring. This article explains the phenomenon.