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Barnyard Buddies:  Imagine the odds, a double yolk hen!!  |
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fionalovesshrek
True Blue Farmgirl
186 Posts
Paige
kinston
North Carolina
USA
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 Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 09:46:31 AM
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We have only three hens, and they've just started laying. Today for lunch we had toast and eggs and two of the eggs were double yolked. If I understand correctly, that means that one of my hens will almost always lay double yolk eggs? How cool is that!
So we can check off "science class" for the day, little Max (age 5) cracked the eggs and beat them to ready for the frying pan, and Noah (age 10) saw our Bonnie hen lay her first egg this morning. Too cool! (Can you tell I like the word "cool" hehe)
Paige
living a good neighbor life
www.fionaswampington.blogspot.com
http://homespunhensfarmgirlchapter.blogspot.com/ |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 10:58:28 AM
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Awesome! I had a flock of RI Reds at one time that had that tendency..it was nice...I could count on about 1/2 of them to be double yolks. It happens rarely with my banties now, but not as often as that group. Lucky you!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 11:34:44 AM
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Paige:
I couple of months ago, I had bought some eggs from a local farmer, and 6 of the 12 eggs had double yolks. Your posting taught me something I did not know. How cool! I learn something new every day. Thanks.
Marly |
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grace gerber
True Blue Farmgirl
2804 Posts
grace
larkspur
colorado
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 1:10:23 PM
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Paige congrat's and how special for your guys.
I had this year a triple yoke egg. I called my sons and then kept it until they could come back to the farm.. My sons started with chickens when I started them in 4H and 14 years later they still can remember all their names and tell great stories about their wonderful hens. Many ribbons, shows and stories are what make a great lifetime on the farm. Hugs those chickens - they work hard.
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
http://www.larkspurfunnyfarm.etsy.com
http://larkspurfunnyfarm.blogspot.com
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Ms.Lilly
True Blue Farmgirl
826 Posts
Lillian
Scotts Mills
OR
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2008 : 3:36:59 PM
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Hi Paige- When my girls started laying I could count on a double yolker each day but alas now that they are older and have regulated themselves rarely do I see those double yolkers anymore. Enjoy them while you have them!
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artbysue
True Blue Farmgirl
218 Posts
Sue
Kidron
Ohio
USA
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl
734 Posts
Shirley
Olympia
Wa
USA
734 Posts |
Posted - Aug 10 2008 : 12:41:48 AM
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Oh good ,Double the cholestrol ROFL
I used to be the poultry supt at the county fair. It was so much fun candleing the eggs and seeing what was in there.
Ive never had any doubles from my banties. I wonder why they dont seem to have double yolks.
I also read some place the other day that there can be up to 8 or 9 yolks at a time in a egg.
Now I would like to see that, id even like to see 3
Shirley
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
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Posted - Aug 10 2008 : 9:04:29 PM
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Have any of you ever heard of an egg-within-an-egg? I guess sometimes (very rarely though) an entire egg-- shell and ALL-- will apear inside ANOTHER egg-- shell and all. Interesting. Something I'd like to see someday. But the double yolked eggs are fun too!! Congrats Paige!!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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fionalovesshrek
True Blue Farmgirl
186 Posts
Paige
kinston
North Carolina
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - Aug 10 2008 : 9:12:34 PM
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That egg in an egg sounds like a magic trick! Well even if our double yolk eggs are only for awhile, it sure is fun. Out at Walmart the other day, Sam started telling everybody that commented on "oh, four boys? all yours? no girls?" (the usual comments) Sam said "yeah, but we have chickens and THEY are girls AND they give us eggs with double yolks." Only Sam's got a lisp so it sounds super cute coming out.
Anyhoo, we're stoked on the eggs, and the girls seem to be very proud and that much more talkative to us when we go out in the morning "look what we did momma!"
P~
living a good neighbor life
www.fionaswampington.blogspot.com
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Edited by - fionalovesshrek on Aug 10 2008 9:13:21 PM |
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artbysue
True Blue Farmgirl
218 Posts
Sue
Kidron
Ohio
USA
218 Posts |
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clux64
True Blue Farmgirl
162 Posts
Celeste
Blair
NE
USA
162 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2008 : 5:10:45 PM
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With some breeds of chickens, it's not unusual to have double yolkers when the pullets first start laying....some of them do it all their laying days. As far as wierd eggs...I've had the egg in an egg, a pullet egg the size and color of an olive (kept that one), an egg without a shell--just like a thick version of the membrane that you find just inside the shell, and sometimes bantem chickens lay eggs without yolks. I've heard them called 'witch eggs', it's a very odd thing to crack an egg with no yolk....but low cholesterol for sure!
Celeste
"No matter where you go, there you are"
--Confucious
www.urbanprairiehome.blogspot.com
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fionalovesshrek
True Blue Farmgirl
186 Posts
Paige
kinston
North Carolina
USA
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