Weird eggs..

RuggieBear · 23-09-2007 1:54pm #1

I just had some eggs...they were all twins! Is this normal?

Gaz · 23-09-2007 2:01pm

Had that happen myself before , every egg in a tray of 24 had two yolks ... x-file stuff

My dad said years ago he cracked an egg into a pan and a half formed chick fell out :eek:

emeraldstar · 23-09-2007 3:09pm

Ugh I can't eat an egg that has twin yolks. They freak me out. Come to think of it though, I haven't come across one for years.

Tar.Aldarion · 23-09-2007 3:17pm

Yes, normal, there is a shop in Dun Laoghaire that almost always has two yolks per egg.

RuggieBear · 23-09-2007 4:17pm

first time i've ever seen it. bit freaky seeing two yolks pop out

Dizzyblonde · 23-09-2007 5:00pm

We often get 'twin eggs' in our supermarket. I was reading lately that even nowadays with all our technology, the way producers check the amount of yolks in an egg is to hold it up to a bright light!

Schlemm · 23-09-2007 8:40pm

ooo wierd. Apparently it's cos of the genetics of the chicken laying the egg or summat. And the record for the most yolks in one egg is 9!:eek:

noby · 26-09-2007 10:11am

It's likely you will get the odd twin yolks if you're buying free range eggs.
But if you're getting all twin yolks in a tray of 24 that's more likely down to all the growth hormones etc. that the hens are pumped full of.

The half-formed chick means the egg was fertilised, so there was a cock, so we're probably talking 'proper' free range flock. The fact that it was half developed probably meant the egg wasn't picked straight away, or was kept in a warm place, which incubated the egg.
A lot of (older generation) people swear by fertilised eggs for a nicer tasting egg.

Weird eggs..

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