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Bought a carton of McLaren Vale free range eggs and the first 5 have been double yolkers! I'm doubtful all of those have come out the butt of one super chook so what gives? Would it have something to do with the grain they are feeding their chooks? How unusual is it to get 5 in a row?

We don't do things by halves here in McLaren Vale

Seriously though, I'd say very unusual ??
Are you tempted to break the rest just to see if they are the same or not...lol.

not common I would think
I often get eggs from my neighbour who has his own chooks and I reckon 1 or 2 out of each dozen would be double yolkers

A Mum wrote::lol:

We don't do things by halves here in McLaren Vale

Seriously though, I'd say very unusual ??
Are you tempted to break the rest just to see if they are the same or not...lol.

No but I'll keep you informed as I do

Weird huh?

that would be rare getting so many

we are lucky to get free range eggs free from where my gf works and not only is the substantially bigger but if you get a free range egg and a normal supermarket egg, just have a geeze at the difference of the colour of the yolk.

2 more from the same pack - don't think there's been one that hasn't been a double yolker. What are they feeding them down there?

Maybe it's not so much what we're feeding them,
Maybe it's what they're drinking

I have my own 4 Bantams and 1 silkie.the first year that my girls started laying we had a couple of double yokers not to many since.
Must be very rare to get so many in one dozen .
Mine free range all day until I lock them in .Of course being bantams a change of wind will send them broody cue one who has been for a while

Yellow to almost orange yolks .My 21 yo who is fussy once he started eating our eggs(and it was a tussle 4 or so years ago)refused to go back to shop eggs unless their free range .

fertility drugs?? IVF ??

You do get some chooks that commonly lay double yolkers - presumably a genetic tendency.
One of those uncommon types in a small flock will throw the usual statistical incidence out the window.
We had one in a flock of 4 laying hens once and half the eggs she produced were doubles.
Each hen seems to have a preferred laying box if they have free choice so if you filled a carton directly from her box you'ld get a high percentage.

lesthemechanic wrote:fertility drugs??

If zipzap grows breasts shortly after the eggs are finished then we'll know for sure

Pseudo wrote:

lesthemechanic wrote:fertility drugs??

If zipzap grows breasts shortly after the eggs are finished then we'll know for sure

What do you mean if?

zipzap wrote:

Pseudo wrote:

lesthemechanic wrote:fertility drugs??

If zipzap grows breasts shortly after the eggs are finished then we'll know for sure

What do you mean if?

The "Bro ", or we could call it the " Mansierre "

zipzap wrote:

Pseudo wrote:

lesthemechanic wrote:fertility drugs??

If zipzap grows breasts shortly after the eggs are finished then we'll know for sure

What do you mean if?

not pretty at all

12/12 were double yolkers BTW

That's unreal...lol.. I think you should buy them again

Obviously something to do with The Yetti and his farming ability

He told me he regularly feeds the chooks

A Mum wrote:That's unreal...lol.. I think you should buy them again

We did and I cracked one open tonight and...and....just a boring old single one. Talk about a rip-off!
I think a mutant uber-chook must have flown in from Chernobyl for the weekend.

Double Yolks and Other Egg Oddities -


http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

I'm nearly 54 never seen one and I lived in the country for a significant period I suppose I 'm still a double yolk virgin