My wife and I have eggs and bacon/sausage about 3-4 mornings a week. we have done this for the 6 years we have been retired. I usually prepare 6 eggs for scrambling or for 2 omelettes. I have never come across a double yoke egg - until today. 4 of the first 5 eggs I cracked were double yoke. Must have been one unusual chicken.

I found this and hope it is true. "Not just lucky to have found a double, but it is also supposed to symbolize good luck in your future. On a spiritual level, it's also supposed to bring you good fortune, suggest that someone is expecting twins, and symbolizes a New Beginning."

About a year ago I came across 2 double yolk eggs in a carton, first time I ever even found one. About a week or so ago I saw a thread on a forum where someone came across 4 in 2 cartons. The other day I saw a headline online (which I did not click on) that read, something like, "You'll be seeing a lot more double yolk eggs in coming weeks". I have no idea why or how they could predict something like that...I guess I should have clicked,

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Interesting question. I have had a few double yolkers over the years, but it had been a long time since I’d seen one. Just last week, though, one turned up.

Is this basically twins? If the eggs were allowed to hatch, would two chicks come out? Sorry, dumb question.

I've had them a couple of times. I throw them away. Ain't natural

I remember (back in the 60s) either when we were in Rhode Island (NS Newport), or Virginia (NS Norfolk) being able to buy carton's of double yoke eggs.

Climate … errr, chicken Change!

Hen Hysteria

Yokes for Clucks

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Aha! Finally a topic I can offer "expert opinions" rather than my usual "I hear tell" comments. Having been in charge, in my youthful years, of our home flock of layers and Sunday dinner chickens, I remember many episodes of two-yoke eggs and one summer of several three-yoke eggs from our flock.

The three-yolk eggs were an amazing size and came from a stocky, but not overly large, hen who did kinda have a funny walk. I don't know why we had so many multi-yoked eggs during a two year stretch, approximately 40-50, but it might have been due to a mixed group of hens from a local hatchery that were combined with our own hatched group.

I do recall a local individual who tried to hatch out a few of the double-yoked eggs. Most of them died before hatching and the only one I remember hatching out had multiple legs and obvious internal abnormalities. It survived long enough for the farmer to have remorseful thoughts about his experiment and he put it out of it's misery.

I don't recall any conversations about good luck or bad luck, but I do recall an old farm lady that believed eating nature's genetic mistakes could cause human genetic mistakes in future offspring (she didn't use the word "genetics" in her warnings on account of her educational level and upbringing, but she was adamant in her belief.) We never heeded her warnings because protein was protein and that was an important need in a large, rural family that harvested squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs, deer, and quail without ever questioning their genetic roots.

None of our family offspring seemed to suffer from eating those weird eggs, except maybe a strong dose of conservative political leanings, but I suspect that came from being self-supporting in our youthful years with no government help - except for the $0.25 discount on our weekly lunch ticket. That discount, however, was based on having a minimum of five or more kids in school and was available to all families regardless of income level. It came about when the Old Man made the case that even the local farmers markets gave volume discounts to their customers.

I am not a big egg eater, but I do remember as a child that we would get double yoked eggs from time to time. We bought most f our eggs from the local farmers that sold them.

Twins right?

The grocery store where I buy eggs has large, extra large, and jumbo eggs. I have never found a double yolk in the large or extra large, but I do find them from time to time in the jumbos.

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I have never found a double yoke [sic] in the large or extra large, but I do find them from time to time in the jumbos.

My experience as well.

A Double-Yolk is essentially a "twin" but as mentioned previously, won't usually hatch twin chicks.

They are more common than believed, as most commercial farms will "candle" the eggs to check for the yolk, and double yolks will end up in some form of prepared egg product (bagged or carton egg mix, or factory use)

Home egg layers seem more likely to get a double yolk in the early or late stages of a hen's life, as the reproductive system is starting or ending.

The "fairy egg" is even more interesting... that's a smaller egg, with no yolk in it.

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OFL: "Them's Deviled Eggs!!!"

Get y'all self out and buy a lottery ticket. Luck's stuck on you.

Last year I bought a dozen Jumbo eggs because the on sale price was better. I kid you not, 11 out of 12 were double yokes.

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Originally posted by konata88:
Is this basically twins? If the eggs were allowed to hatch, would two chicks come out? Sorry, dumb question.

I've had them a couple of times. I throw them away. Ain't natural

That would assume the eggs were fertilized.

Usually, you pay double for that kind of action, Cotton.

I've seen as many as five yolks in one egg. I'm working at a hatchery. The cull eggs get dumped down a macerator, and turned into pet food.