Double yolkers! How fun!

[DanyyChicken]

Two of our birds starting laying the week of 8/29/2011. Now they have moved up to providing us with double yolkers! Yippee! How fun and Yummy too!

We've gotten three so far. Pictures of the two layers a couple weeks ago. I'm not sure if Amberlinks are known for double yolkers but I know Golden Comets are! We are now waiting for the EE's and the BR to come on board.

Hmmm! Who laid these eggs I know I didn't!!!!

 

[McKenley5]

I love your pictures! Thanks for sharing

 

[ChickiKat]

handprint chickens on your wall, how cool is that..... great idea!

 

[jtbrown]

Great pics, I also love double yolkers. I know they are technically a misfire, but I do a little dance at the stovetop when my breakfast is a double yolker!

 

[misidawnrn]

My bet is the red chicken. The white one probably lays white eggs (at least my Red Star lays brown and White Leghorn lays white) One of my white chickens lays double yolkers a lot...poor chicken. Her very first egg was a double yolker.

 

[DanyyChicken]

Actually my only white chicken is an Amberlink and they do lay brown eggs. If your ever looking for a white chicken that lays brown eggs that would be it. I have to admit she is not totally white thou more of a winter white color with some brownish flecks across her back. She is pretty and rather large and known for high production.
Thanks for the comments on the hand chickens. It just came to me one day as we all remember making turkeys from our hands as children. I modified it a bit to do the chicks... Thought it would be fun to do as a family. We each used a hand to make one. My kids are 5 and 2 and thought we could reminisce about it in a couple years from now.

 

[epeloquin]

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You're right that a double tolker is "technically a misfire" but some girls have a greater tendency to lay doubles. The Amish breed hens that always lay doubles! It would be cool too get some of their chicks!!

I have two girls that just started laying. My Rhodie's (named Chico) second egg was a double. All singles since then but that's okay.

 

[Nonny]

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I read that earlobe colour indicates egg colour...

"34. How do you know what color shell the eggs will have?

The earlobes of the chicken dictate the color of the shell (white ear lobes = white eggs; red earlobes = brown eggs)."

(Excerpt from here: http://urbanext.illinois.edu/eggs/res32-qa.html)

By the pics above, it looks like both those girls would lay brown eggs.​

 

[kab]

Oh my! I hope I get to do a dance or two out of my flock over some double yolks!

 

[annep]

My children loved the double yolkers...When we come across a huge egg, they all have hopes, but we haven't had one in some time...