triple yolks?

[Dutchess]

I can't imagine an egg with a 9" diameter! That's a huge egg, well I guess it would have to be with 5 yolks in it.
The only problem with double yolks is that there are only so many eggs a hen can lay in her life. I'd rather get another whole egg than one double yolker!

 

[chickchicks]

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new at this here so if one lays a double does she miss the next day?

i still want one just so i can say i have seen one as ive seen pictures but have trouble believeing it !!!!

 

[Dutchess]

From what I have read here, A hen has every egg she will ever lay inside her when she is first hatched. Logically, if she layed a double yolker everyday, she would lay only half of her life, right?

Any other takes on that one? Anybody?

 

[reneemellor]

Only a small fraction of the egg cells will ever develop. They have more than they need, I don't think it makes much difference, unless you're hoping to hatch.

 

[chickchicks]

earn something new everyday !

 

[mcf3kids]

One of my smallest chickens (the white leghorn) has been routinely laying double yolked eggs and she will still lay the next day. She will lay 5 or 6 days a week - amazing! These things are huge and I really feel bad for her! The other day her bottom was bloody

but I think one day I will be surprised with a triple

I had been wondering if it will shorten her laying time as I had heard that they have roughly 1000 eggs that they will lay over a lifetime.

 

[kuntrygirl]

My Cornish girls always layed double yokers.

 

[chickchicks]

is it more to a breed or can any chicken do a double yolk ?

justcurois as you dont really see anything like it in the shops !

 

[M.sue]

I believe any hen can lay double yolks. It's just the way their body/system delivers it sometimes. Double yolks I feel are very common. I recently had a triple yolker....the egg was huge and so were the yolks!

I was so excited about the size, I never thought of weighing it. It was so large that I couldn't close the carton!!

 

[Katydid2011]

I have a Black Sex Link hen that I rescued along with three others from a breeder who had them living in absolute filth in a dark room with no light save a 25 watt bulb and they'd never been outside. It made me sick so I paid for them all and took them home. They all matured late for Sex Links but they're absolutely gorgeous birds now and all prolific layers. At 7-months old, the smallest one of the bunch lays a triple yolk egg every single day. Her eggs are so huge I wonder how she gets them out but she always does it quickly, no egg song, no fuss, just *plop*.