Why Do Some Eggs Have Two Yolks?

Sauger's Eggs ^ | 07/12/2019

[millenial4freedom]

DOUBLE YOLKS EXPLAINED

Female chickens — hens — are born with two ovaries, just like humans. As the chick matures into an adult hen, her right ovary shrivels up, leaving her left ovary to handle the task of producing and releasing eggs. When we refer to the eggs that come from a hen’s ovaries, we aren’t talking about the shell and whites. We’re only talking about the round yellow part we know as “yolks.” The other stuff — what we know as a complete egg — comes later in the process.

When it works as it should, the whole process is pretty simple. A hen’s body produces a yolk that gathers other stuff and becomes the thing we dye at Easter and include in brownies, cakes, and stir-fry, among other dishes. But, just like the human body, a hen’s body doesn’t always work the way it’s supposed to.

Since we can’t put a camera inside a hen to observe the reproduction process she goes through each day, it’s impossible to completely understand what happens to cause a double egg. However, as best as scientists can tell, a double yolk occurs when something interferes with the rhythm of a hen’s reproductive system. In other words, something causes her reproductive process to speed up and release two yolks rather than one. While they aren’t necessarily released simultaneously, the yolks get released close enough together that they end up traveling through the fallopian tube together. That means they end up getting bound together into the whites and, ultimately, the eggshell.

[millenial4freedom]

found one of these suckers while making scrambled eggs this morning!

[wny]

climate change

[HighSierra5]

Cause two are better than one.

[combat_boots]

Tweggs

[millenial4freedom]

that, or ‘toxic masculinity’ stemming from the rooster (male chicken)

[Red Badger]

For the same reason there are two posts!................

[Magnum44]

[Tell It Right]

Jesus: for my burden is easy, and my yolks are light

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Egg%2C_Florida

[Yulee]

Years ago my uncle ran a chicken farm in North Florida. Young hens laid double yoke eggs, and they were pulled out and sold separately as double yoke.

Once I found a triple yoke egg. Maybe that chicken had three ovaries.

[Yo-Yo]

found one of these suckers while making scrambled eggs this morning!

You can buy 'em by the dozen, if you're so inclined.

Computerized candling makes them easy to spot and cull for separate sale.

[dainbramaged]

Way back when I had 25 Rhode Island Red hens, double yolks were not uncommon and some would lay triples on occasion.

[Bogle]

I always thought they were going to be twins. I’m crushed!

[tet68]

Why do some eggs get more yokes?
Because they have better writers!

[alexander_busek]

The yolk is not the ovum. The ovum - the microscopic cell, containing chromosomes and fertilized by a sperm from the rooster - is located in a special, barely visible structure located on the surface of the yolk. The yolk does not contain chromosomes.

Regards,

[PLMerite]

“Why Do Some Eggs Have Two Yolks?”

Siamese Chickens.

[Bob434]

because 3 would be just really weird

[miele man]

About seven or eight years ago, out of one box of 12 eggs, I had double yolks three days in a row and another double yolk on the fifth day. Never happened before nor since. Quite amazing. I probably should’ve bought lottery tickets.

[miele man]

About seven or eight years ago, out of one box of 12 eggs, I had double yolks three days in a row and another double yolk on the fifth day. Never happened before nor since. Quite amazing. I probably should’ve bought lottery tickets.

[Shady]

We buy Jumbo eggs at a market we like when they are on sale, we have had several double yolks in the recent past....