Whoa! Check out this whopper!!

[wjallen05]

Look what one of my (22 week old) Leghorn gals laid the other day! I couldn't believe it!! It was a double yolk. This is the third double yolk I've gotten from her since she started laying.

In comparrison to the other Leghorn eggs...

 

[thechickenchick]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[supermommy]

Yikes, that had to have been a little painful

 

[large1]

You should probably give here an ice pack or a pillow to sit on.

 

[b.hromada]

Poor girl! That sure is a whopper of an egg!!

 

[LA~Poulet]

Wowsers! This is sort of unrelated, but a guy my DH works with was telling him yesterday how many years ago he worked for a poultry farmer that selectively chose hens who regularly laid double yolks, and somehow developed a flock of them. Is that possible or was the guy yanking DH's chain?

 

[Mrs. Glassman]

LA~Poulet :

Wowsers! This is sort of unrelated, but a guy my DH works with was telling him yesterday how many years ago he worked for a poultry farmer that selectively chose hens who regularly laid double yolks, and somehow developed a flock of them. Is that possible or was the guy yanking DH's chain?

Wondering the same thing!​

 

[Horsewell]

wow that things huge! poor girl

 

[msgenie516]

LA~Poulet :

Wowsers! This is sort of unrelated, but a guy my DH works with was telling him yesterday how many years ago he worked for a poultry farmer that selectively chose hens who regularly laid double yolks, and somehow developed a flock of them. Is that possible or was the guy yanking DH's chain?

I really don't know but one of my local supermarkets sells double-yolkers by the dozen all the time (of course, I don't buy them)! It appears to me that they must have hens that reliably lay double-yolkers or they wouldn't be able to do this. There are as many cartons of double-yolkers as other types of eggs in their refrigerated case.

Before I had chickens producing my own eggs, I did buy some of these and, yes, they were all double-yolkers!​