Double Yolk eggs

[Hosenbugler]

Has anyone any idea as to why it seems nobody appears to sell double yolk Hens eggs? Back a few years, ther used to be a number of stalls at markets who sold Jumbo eggs, which were nearly all double yolks. marks and Spencer even started selling them , but no longer it seems

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddr...

I have heard that they are outside grading specifications, so cannot be sold, which seems a bit weird , having said that I've no idea whether its a fact or just nonsense.

Anyway, anybody any idea as to why they seem to be unavailable?

[TTmonkey]

Dunno, but some woman cracked an egg with four yolks the other day.

[akirk]

According to our local egg farm - they come at a particular point of the year... / laying season
They sell them in the baskets of eggs - you wander in, grab some eggs, drop some money into the basket and wander out...
I very much enjoy buying them when they are around...

[MrHappy]

We get double yolkers from our local farm, they're enormous even compared to a 'large' shop bought egg. The supermarkets don't want them as recipes using eggs are based on a single yolk.

[Jobbo]

A previous client of mine happened to be a farmer as well. He brought a few dozen double yolkers into the office for people to take home. He said the machinery they use to sort eggs can easily distinguish a double yolker so you won't get them by accident in your supermarket eggs; but there's no market for them so he gives them away.

[The jiffle king]

Curious why there is no market? Are they seen as bad?

[Hosenbugler]

Thanks for the replies folks. I'm puzzled about people saying there is no market for double yolkers, my post was prompted by a gathering I was at a few days back, where the subject came up. There were a dozen or more present, and the interest in double yolkers was unanimous.
Apparently, its young hens who lay them, early in their laying lives, when their body is adjusting to their new "production". Itsnothing to do with the time of year, unless of course young hens are brougfht onstream in particualr months.

[anonymous-user]

I thought it put a smile on everyone’s face getting a double yolker?

They should mix them in with the supermarket eggs and market it that way so we can look forward to getting one now and again. Hope they don’t bin them.

[Riley Blue]

My O/H says try and find Glenrath Double Yolkers though she hasn't seen them south of the border for quite a while. She - and they - are Scottish and she doesn't eat the whites of eggs.

[Balmoral]

Dumb question. If a double yolk were to be fertilised and hatched, is it twins?

[HotJambalaya]

I could have sworn I saw some in waitrose recently

[48k]

Hosenbugler said:

Thanks for the replies folks. I'm puzzled about people saying there is no market for double yolkers, my post was prompted by a gathering I was at a few days back, where the subject came up. There were a dozen or more present, and the interest in double yolkers was unanimous.
Apparently, its young hens who lay them, early in their laying lives, when their body is adjusting to their new "production". Itsnothing to do with the time of year, unless of course young hens are brougfht onstream in particualr months.

It would be very early in their lives - hens start laying at about 6 months old and lay commercially for about a year before being slaughtered / moved on.

The market for double yokers is absolutely miniscule - the overwhelming majority of egg usage is based on the egg being a certain size and having a single yoke.

[tobinen]

MikeStroud said:

I thought it put a smile on everyone’s face getting a double yolker?

They should mix them in with the supermarket eggs and market it that way so we can look forward to getting one now and again. Hope they don’t bin them.

Good idea.

I rememeber when we kept chickens as a kid we'd quite often have a double-yoker. I only recall seeing one treble though.

[blueg33]

I buy the blue eggs from Tesco. Probably get a double yolk egg once in every 4packs of 6

[172]

morrisons purple have had a few doubles in each box recently

[Mort7]

The chickens we kept laid double-yolkers when they were young. The eggs were the same size, and the combined volume of a double yolk wasn't much different to a single. Our chickens died of natural causes, and continued laying into old age, but the frequency dropped off as they got older. One of them lived to 11, and would still lay the odd egg at 9 or 10.

[theboss]

When I kept hens they were a regular occurrence and were immediately distinguishable by their size.

[MrJuice]

I had a disproportionately large egg recently from one of my hens weighing 83g as opposed to usual baseline of 55g-65g. They've been laying for about 5 months now so not exactly brand new layers. The egg was a double yolker. Lovely.

I've only had one other double yolker from this batch of 6 hens since I've had them.

[louiebaby]

Runs of double yolk eggs in normal purchasing happen a lot more often that stats would have us believe.

1 in 1,000 is often seen as the odds of a double yolker, so 3 in a row will be 1 in 1,000,000,000. But it happens more often than that, because eggs don't end up in egg boxes randomly.

Some of the sorting is done manually, and it's easy to see if it's a double yolker by holding them up to a light source. Operators will keep the double yolkers out, as they're not that desirable. Often taking them home themselves.

When they have too many of them, or enough to make a whole box of the same size, they'll send them through, and someone will be surprised to get 6 double yolkers in one go.

A family member has done a bit of this work in the past, and often comes to visit with a tray of eggs. We've had a tray of 18 where every single one has been a double yolker for precisely this reason. We didn't beat the 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 odds of it happening, we just have Uncle Barry to thank.

[MrJuice]

I'd still buy a lottery ticket though.