...CalgaryFarmer: An egg sandwich would be nice sweetheart. (Ok. I embellished that last part.)
Mrs. CalgaryFarmer: Those large eggs have doubleyolks. Let me try another. Yah. They seem to all have doubleyolks.
Mr. CalgaryFarmer panics as he recalls he has quite a few of these large...
I had a BO - laid mostly doubleYolks her first year. My sons were teenagers and swore a doubleyolk meant a lucky day! The next year after her molt, she laid doubleyolks when she started back up, but went to single yolks very quickly - never laid another doubleyolk. She lived until she was 5...
One of my blue Plymouth rocks laid her first egg yesterday. I cracked it open today and it's a doubleyolk! I've never seen such a tiny doubleyolk egg 😄
I would toss the egg. Doubleyolkers almost never hatch. And when they do they usually have issues. Or they both drown when hatching. Personally I think it is cruel to try and hatch a doubleyolk egg.
Thank you all for your help and suggestions!
We are going to hold off on the calcium for now and just add OS.
Surprisingly, the egg was a doubleyolk and Hubby said it/they tasted just fine.
We have some people who raise and release ring neck pheasants down the road from us and the kids found some marked eggs that were tossed just a bit off the road. I assume they failed to hatch but I got curious and candled them, 2 blanks and 1 with something inside. No movement and no veins so I...
...a little over a week ago. I got her 8th today and it was huge, so was the one yesterday. We had eggs this evening and BOTH eggs were doubleyolks!! I know new layers are prone to them but two in a row?!?! Is there anything to worry about? I feed them layer pearls with black sunflower oil...