Something Amazing just happened!!

I never used to get double yokers, but towards end of last year i kept getting them all the time which kind of freaked me out as to why all of a sudden i was getting them all the time so i switch to free range eggs as surely getting double yokers is a sign something is'nt right either witht the way the hen's are being treated or something wrong with the hen's them self.
 
It happens all the time, my Uncles run a chicken farm (Barn not battery), us family get the oversized double eggs all the time.

Its not unheard of to have a triple yoke.
 
WHAT!!! said:
I never used to get double yokers, but towards end of last year i kept getting them all the time which kind of freaked me out as to why all of a sudden i was getting them all the time so i switch to free range eggs as surely getting double yokers is a sign something is'nt right either witht the way the hen's are being treated or something wrong with the hen's them self.
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Wait you started getting lots of double yolkers and thought this was a bad thing and switched away :eek:

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.[citation needed] Usually a double-yolked egg will be longer and thinner than an ordinary single-yolk egg. Double-yolked eggs occur rarely, only leading to observed successful hatchings under human intervention, as the unborn chickens would otherwise fight each other and die.[15]
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Basically it's just like twins in humans.

Also makes for wonderful creamy, scrambled eggs.
 
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