Double yolked eggs indicate an abnormality in the hen's reproductive system in which the hen holds back a yolk and when the next yolk comes an egg is produced with two yolks. This occurs most when a hen first starts laying or when she is at the end of her reproductive life. We feel that it is one of our older hens that is laying the double yolked eggs.
When do you get double yolked eggs? Are you finding that it is in the young hens that have just started laying or is it in your older hens who are about to stop laying? Do you find that both lay double yolked eggs?
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We've never gotten a double yolked egg, but lately our hens have been laying some MASSIVE eggs. I mean gigantic! I'll have to take a photo and show you. Like one the other day was about the size of two and a half regular large eggs. Weird! I haven't cracked it yet to see what's inside!
ReplyDeleteWe got double yolks with our cornish rock hens we purchased a few years ago... you know, the ones bred to be huge. Other than that, we haven't gotten any.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that about double yolked eggs. Of course, mine are must 3 months old, so egg laying is yet to come.
ReplyDeleteWe get double yolked eggs about once a week and usually from my gold sex link. She is a little over a year old.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember ever getting double yolked eggs when we had chickens when I was growing up. However, I was getting them pretty regularly last summer. I think they were coming from my silver laced wyandotte hens. It was their first year laying, for what that's worth. My husband's hunting dogs got loose and killed them, so I can't experiment and find out if it was because they were still so young or not. :-/
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