The Wordless Picture Thread

[rolodave]

Earl and Opal are often very close to home

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[PaulFLUS]

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[Aggelos]

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Fairly normal and common. Happens frequently when the hen is still young AFAIK.

In lower shelf packs (that I had to do with earlier in my life) up to half the eggs can contain two yolks

[PaulFLUS]

Must be those French chickens. Here it's very rare. We raised chickens the whole time I was growing up and I can remember finding less than half a dozen.

[Aggelos]

Had to double check but it's actually not rare anywhere, some people actually do it on purpose, as some will pay extra for them. It's considered by some as a good luck charm, or even a sign of a baby to come (something to announce?)

Apparently happens mostly in browner eggs, in spring, and they are produced by chickens either at the start or the end of their reproductive cycle (linked to the maturity of the whole shebang). But since industrially they don't keep old birds, essentially it's younger ones as told above.

And the reason you can find whole packs of double yolkers is because neighbouring hens come from the same breeding farms at the same time, as I surmised.

[PaulFLUS]

If you say so.