A pullet egg this big??? DANG!

[Akane]

So i hear all the time about birds laying double/triple yokers on here

how come we don't get any at the grocery store?

They sort them out. Commercial layers have been bred specifically to lay as uniform of eggs as possible. Then the eggs are weighed, candled, and inspected. They are graded and put into cartons. Any eggs that don't make the lowest grade from double yolks, far too big or small, too porous of shell, meat spots, etc... Gets put into other things instead of being sold whole. If you buy any liquid egg products or boxed baking items it likely contains these less than perfect eggs. Alot of people don't want random sized eggs or surprise double yolkers. It would mess with their baking. Have you seen how hard it can be to take your own eggs and follow a recipe? "2 large eggs" hmm.... is this one large? I had to start out putting eggs on a postal scale and looking up egg size standards for the US. Then I have to break them in a seperate bowl not only in case there is something wrong with them but in case I get double yolks because it would mess up the recipe. Some people even fail to find the benefits of farm fresh eggs to be greater than the potential problems while trying to cook things. So long ago the commercial egg industry start to make standards so every egg you buy is the same.​

 

[k2chickens]

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They sort them out. Commercial layers have been bred specifically to lay as uniform of eggs as possible. Then the eggs are weighed, candled, and inspected. They are graded and put into cartons. Any eggs that don't make the lowest grade from double yolks, far too big or small, too porous of shell, meat spots, etc... Gets put into other things instead of being sold whole. If you buy any liquid egg products or boxed baking items it likely contains these less than perfect eggs. Alot of people don't want random sized eggs or surprise double yolkers. It would mess with their baking. Have you seen how hard it can be to take your own eggs and follow a recipe? "2 large eggs" hmm.... is this one large? I had to start out putting eggs on a postal scale and looking up egg size standards for the US. Then I have to break them in a seperate bowl not only in case there is something wrong with them but in case I get double yolks because it would mess up the recipe. Some people even fail to find the benefits of farm fresh eggs to be greater than the potential problems while trying to cook things. So long ago the commercial egg industry start to make standards so every egg you buy is the same.

all true!

 

[thespinningcottage]

Love the picture of the "torpedo" egg! I had one (actually one of the sexlinks did

) that weighed in at 3.7 ounces. Definitely weigh it!

 

[Mattemma]

I just got a big egg the other day too.Then today I found 2 eggs in the box,and 2 yolks on the ground. I have 3 red sex link hens that I got as chicks in May 2009.

I took a picture,but don't know how to post it in a thread.

 

[msgenie516]

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Believe it or not, I have a supermarket here that sells double-yolkers by the dozen. Before I had chickens, I bought them once to see if they really were double-yolkers and, yes, they were. I have no idea how they can get that many. The market always has lots of them in the refrigerated section!

Congrats on that big pullet egg!

 

[gram28]

I have a light brahma who laid 2 soft shelled eggs than one as big or bigger than yours and has now settled into 1 like your second one every day.

 

[miladachicken]

My ameracauna's first egg was a double yolk- ouch! a good way to remember these abnormal eggs is to put small holes in the top and bottom and blow from the top to get the white and yolk/s out into a bowl

 

[frankenchick]

My White Rocks occasionally lay those "ouchie eggs." They're usually double-yolkers.

Congrats on your new layers!