how common are double yolks ?

[urbanolive]

Someone in my flock laid a HUGE egg yesterday and it was a double yolker. They are all just starting to lay in the past couple of weeks so I don't know if it was someone's first or another hens second egg. It was massive compared to a grocery store egg or any other eggs we've gotten. I've heard that some chickens always lay double yolkers and sometimes it is just a flook ????

 

[fordmommy]

When my BA started laying, she had A LOT of double yolkers. It seemed like every other one was a double. It lasted for say 3 weeks or so. Like her body had to work itself out. But the eggs were not huge. But you'd crack the larger ones and it was 2.

 

[redhen]

When my flock first started to lay..i got alot...
now i dont get any...

 

[Mandalina]

both my BO's first few eggs were doubles...havent seen any in months though.

 

[urbanolive]

Quote:
Yes I think it was one of my Buff O's who laid it !

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

My Dorry lays a double every other day, nothing on the in between days.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

Quote:
Same here

 

[feather and mountain man]

I had a partridge rock that laid double every day and one day she laid an egg with three yolks and our local paper printed the picture.

 

[Buck77]

Double yolkers are pretty common in hens starting to lay. I worked in a commercial broiler hatchery and when flocks came in to production there would be lots of them. The older they got the less DYs they laid.

 

[Uzuri]

I feel like mine are cheating me -- of the 4 that are laying over 3 months, one laid ONE double-yolker ONCE.

I'm getting stiffed!