Many birds can lay a double yolk egg. Chickens,ducks and turkeys all will occasionally lay a double yolk egg. Double yolk eggs will not hatch.
One large egg with a double yolk typically contains around 90 calories. The majority of these calories come from the yolk, which is where the fat and most of the nutrients are found.
The likelihood that a mature hen will lay a double yolked egg without this genetic predisposition is about 1 in 1000, there are much fewer triple yolked eggs, but it gives you an idea.
Only to the superstitious. Double-yolk eggs occur when ovulation occurs too rapidly, or when one yolk becomes joined with another yolk. These eggs may be the result of a young hen's productive cycle not yet being harmonized. BUT yes people do say Its Good Luck or you may get a twin if someone is pregnant. :)
You don't. Double yolks are like twins, they occur spontaneously. You have no control over the number of yolks in an egg. This is all genetically determined. The hens who lay double yolked eggs have a flaw in the oviduct which allows more than one ovulation at a time. Double yolk eggs are not really all that rare and can be purchased at most major grocery stores in North America.
Two yolks inside one shell. Sometimes when the hen releases the oocyte from her ovipositor two are released at one time. Not as rare as most people believe but because of todays technology, the egg producers are able to separate the double yolk eggs and sell them at a higher price. Buying eggs from a local farm will often result in your finding a double yolk egg in a dozen fresh eggs at breakfast.
yes an Easter egg has no yoke!LOL no but realy there is no egg that i know of that dosent have a yoke soo it's no! Actually, according to Wikipedia, there is such thing. It is rare and is considered to be abnormal just as double yolk eggs are. Here is a direct quote from Wikipedia: "...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."
Its called a 'yolk' inside the egg you get from the shops, if its rare it not yellow its a orange colour. And like a oval 3D shape.
Double yolk eggs can be laid by any chicken breed, but it is more common in young hens that are just beginning to lay eggs. It is not specific to a particular breed.
We have had chickens for nearly 8 years now, and it has happened to us only once. The egg was shaped oddly long. It reached from my wrist to the top of my palm. The yolks were not small. We have all Rhode Island Reds, 26 of them and two roosters. And yes the roosters do get along. We get a lot of double yolkers, but only 1 of these triple ones. It wasn't even "egg shaped". It looked like a short, empty toilet paper roll with rounded ends. Truly an odd sight.
One. Although double-yolk eggs are sometimes produced, they probably never hatch.
She pays Doc Baker with 6 double yolk eggs. She feels bad because Doc Baker gave the Ingalls the chickens, but he says, "They never laid double yolk eggs for me. Shows what a little love will do."