Ever come across an egg with 2 yolks inside? How about an egg without any yolk at all?
Well, a co-worker of mine asked an interesting question today. He came across an egg with two yolks yesterday and he wasn't sure if it was safe to eat. He told us he threw it out, just to be safe. What a waste! I said, and I assured him it was safe, it's somewhat common for an egg to have 2 yolks.
Here is how it happens:
"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." From
this site.
I also found it interesting that about 1 in every 1000 eggs will have a double yolk. It's also possible for an egg to have no yolk at all! To find out more about that and other egg oddities, check out
PoultryHelp.
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I've had a two yolked egg before! I fed it to my dog and he lived lol.
I always feel like I'm getting a bonus when there are two yolks in one shell and at least as far as I know, they've never killed me.
I've had eggs with 2 yolks before. They were consumed safely. However, the 2 yolks were usually smaller than typical single yolk eggs. I've never come across an egg with no yolk before.
I've never had that! I don't like the yolk very much, so I wouldn't be too happy about eating it.
its safe & its fine!
i came across two yolks and no yolks in the same dozen box.i told myself; must be lucky!
That was informative. I've seen the whole two-yolks-one-egg thing before, but never gave it much thought.
@prettykay04@xanga - Extraordinarily more so than others, since no yolk eggs seem to be rarer, and not only that but in your situation the two yolks & no yolk evened each other out. :D
I've always thought they were twin embryos.
Yeah I saw an interesting youtube video where every egg a lady cracked open from this one carton was a double yolker.
They come from young hens whose cycle have not been constant yet
There's also a triple yolker (:
It's my dream to find one of those
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiZmsmLxhQA
Odd! I've only had one in my eggs :(
Once my mom was making me some sort of egg dish. She cracked one open and it had something in it...blood or something red. We threw it out and got another one that turned out to have a double yolk...it felt like we were being reimbursed for the other one. :] @wing_stock@xanga - I would be really excited to find one!
never happened to me!
I got an egg with 2 yolks just a few weeks ago when I was making maple-boubon pecan pie for Thanksgiving. I thought it was pretty cool, I didn't hesitate to still use the egg, and the pie came out great! :)
@MzKeekz@xanga - We thought the same - and my dad is a twin so he found it exciting. lol
i see it something analogous to a chicken having twins haha.
i get double yolks occasionally, and it's like christmas! =D never had no yolk though, i would probably cry.
Eggs are so cute :)
I've never found a double-yolk or even a no-yolk for that matter, but now I know they're safe to eat. Haha.
sooo....if the egg were to hatch, what would happen?
My Grade five and six teacher was sort of weird, but he had chickens at home and would sell eggs to the other faculty and parents. One year he sold double yolk eggs for a little extra. Looking back, it was really cool and really weird all at the same time.