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Siamese Eggs!?!??!

  • 04-04-2005 8:31pm
    #1
    tk123
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    We've gotten another batch of eggs from the butchers in Omni and they have TWO YOKES!!!!! :D Anyone else got these?


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  • #2
    tSubh Dearg
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    I've often gotten double yokes in eggs.We usually get our eggs in superquinn, doesn't happen very often but every now and then you'll get a couple of them in a batch.

    Very inconvenient when you break one in as the last egg in a cake mix as then you have to compensate for the extra egginess.


  • #3
    rubadub
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    It just twins. 1 in 10 people are meant to be twins i.e. 1 in 20 births. I'm surprised you dont find more "twin" eggs.


  • #4
    pickarooney
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    In Holland they sell them in boxes of 10 'dubbel-dooiers'. I don't know if they do some weird shít to get the chickens to produce them or if they just scan all their eggs and pick these out for sale separately.


  • #5
    tk123
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    tSubh Dearg wrote:
    I've often gotten double yokes in eggs.We usually get our eggs in superquinn, doesn't happen very often but every now and then you'll get a couple of them in a batch.

    Very inconvenient when you break one in as the last egg in a cake mix as then you have to compensate for the extra egginess.


    Thats exactly it!!! You have to be really careful when baking!


  • #6
    The Sweeper
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    I break eggs into a cup before chucking them into the baking mix anyhow. Learned my lesson a long time ago when a less-than-fresh egg ruined a pile of other ingredients because I broke it straight into the bowl.


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  • #7
    Stark
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    Strange, I've never seen a twin-yolked egg in my life. And I eat a LOT of eggs.

    (My cholesterol is off the low end of the scale as well btw, before anyone mentions it :p).


  • #8
    rubadub
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    Stark wrote:
    Strange, I've never seen a twin-yolked egg in my life. And I eat a LOT of eggs.

    (My cholesterol is off the low end of the scale as well btw, before anyone mentions it :p).

    You're more likely to get them in the extra large size


  • #9
    tk123
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    Stark I'll take a pic of the next one!! :D


  • #10
    Shabadu
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    here comes the science...


  • #11
    jackie g
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    hi,

    we keep organic hens, you are more likely to get double yolks from older hens. most hens when they start laying eggs, the eggs are about the size of a golf ball and then get bigger after about 4 months. when a hen has been laying for 2 years or so, eggs get bigger and they produce double yolks. jackie


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