Aug 22 2008
Double Yolks!
This morning I cooked my sons fried egg sandwiches and found this:
Apparently they’re very rare and the chicks will not hatch (they can’t acess the air pocket when there are two in the egg). For way more info than you probably want, you can read Twin Yolks and Twin Chooks?
The kids thought it was pretty cool and the oldest had a lot of questions about twins… but no remorse about eating the fried egg.
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I’ve seen double-yolked eggs from time to time, but had the most bizarre experience several years back when an entire dozen eggs from the farmers’ market was twin-yolked. I would have thought that the eggs in a dozen would come from different hens, and that they wouldn’t all do this, but I really have no idea what causes it. I wonder if environmental factors could come into play?
Jenifer – Then you need to go follow that link! They get into all the bird reproductive physiology. And wow! a whole dozen. I think I’ve only seen one other double yolked egg before ever.
That’s so cool! I’ve never had twin yolks before. Now I’ll have to be on the look-out because I admit to being rather jealous.
I found an egg like that once, and couldn’t bring myself to eat it. I don’t know why. It was just odd.
I’m sure you gave your son a great biology lesson!
I’m like Melina and probably couldn’t eat it. I think my greatest fear is finding a chick inside and the double yolk is just a little too close to that.
Pam – In my previous life teaching developmental biology, one of the things we did was create a ‘window’ with plastic wrap in the side of a fertilized egg. This allowed my students and me to watch the baby chick as it developed. It was really cool. However, if your fear came true, I would probably be just as grossed out as the next person.
Oh, that is neat! I’d have no problem eating it! I love sunny-side-up eggs! When I was in elementary school one of my teachers had the ‘window’ thing, and it was awesome watching a baby chick develop.
Yes, actualy the double yolk eggs can produced by human, through hatchery modification. Further information please click this link http://b0cah.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=744&Itemid=54