13-02-2021, 04:29 PM
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It's Not Natural....
On my mind for over a month, I've got to ask you all...has anyone else noticed that since this isolation period with Covid there are no more double yolkers in eggs? I used to love being surprised when cracking open an egg to find two yolks! It's considered good luck, like finding a penny with heads up.
I have come to the conclusion that even roosters and chickens aren't acting naturally, in isolation. And don't get me started on rabbits....where are all the rabbits?!? In isolation, too?
13-02-2021, 05:06 PM
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Re: It's Not Natural....
It's years since I last had a double-yoker.But rabbits ........... oh, they're about allright.
I've been watching them playing in the snow this last few days, and there are loads in the field behind us.
Which just goes to show that the fox who was also playing in the snow (not at the same time as the bunnies) is either not very good, or not very hungry.
13-02-2021, 05:06 PM
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Re: It's Not Natural....
I once found 6 double-yolkers in a 6-pack .....
What are the chances, I wondered .....
1 in a billion ..... 1 in a trillion .....
So I asked a farming friend how rare such an occurrence would be ..... I was disappointed to find that, although finding a single double-yolker in a 6-pack is quite rare, finding 6 in a 6-pack is statistically more likely if the eggs come from the same flock of chickens and the chickens are young - the eggs would normally be small but double-yolkers are larger than single yolkers so egg-packers separate them off for boxing.
I checked the internet and she was right:
What are the chances of six double-yolkers?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16118149
..... and I really enjoyed the egg-yolk "bounty" .....
13-02-2021, 05:22 PM
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Re: It's Not Natural....
This is the first time I have ever heard of this and I have never cracked open or eaten one.Just looking into this it seems that only hens less than a year old lay such eggs. Morrisons were selling them a couple of years ago but they were checking every egg under a UV lamp to select the double ones. So Rightnow perhaps in the US they are no longer using Spring chickens!
As I have never seen this in my lifetime I assume that here they either screen them or use mature chickens to lay.
Does it mean twice the cholesterol?
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