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in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 11:27 AM Jul 2018

Does anyone on DU know about raising chickens?

This morning I broke a jumbo size white egg to scramble and onto the pan drops two full size, same size yolks. Is this common? I usually buy large eggs. What would have been the outcome if the egg had been allowed to hatch?

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Does anyone on DU know about raising chickens? (Original Post) in2herbs Jul 2018 OP
Two chics DUgosh Jul 2018 #1
I'll raise you two chickens and a duck. nt tblue37 Jul 2018 #2
Your egg wasn't fertilized so there would be no hatching. SharonClark Jul 2018 #3
Alright all right, settle down..yes I keep a small flock of laying Buff Orpingtons...ask me anything DownFromTheMountain Jul 2018 #4
Hormones if its a store egg. DownFromTheMountain Jul 2018 #5
I have chickens and they get no hormones. One routinely lays double yolks. Tipperary Jul 2018 #6
genetics, maybe? MissMillie Jul 2018 #8
Lol, who knows? I love it though. Always fun to find. Only the biggest chicken does this, not Tipperary Jul 2018 #13
no MissMillie Jul 2018 #7
Ask Ivana Chump.. ADX Jul 2018 #9
Thanks for the replies. I've been interested in raising chickens but I'll have to in2herbs Jul 2018 #10
4 times?!! Kali Jul 2018 #15
Thanks to the wonders of alternative medicine he survived each rattlesnake bite and we continued in2herbs Jul 2018 #17
Well palliative care is about all you can do anyway. My experience with livestock and snakebites Kali Jul 2018 #19
Not common, but I found one once, and it was 'store bought' Brother Buzz Jul 2018 #11
My grandparents raised free range chickens when I was a child thbobby Jul 2018 #12
it is more common than you might think Kali Jul 2018 #14
Exactly Major Nikon Jul 2018 #16
Jack DeCoster used to give the candled double-yolkers to his employee jpak Jul 2018 #18
mopinko's a CHAMP! elleng Jul 2018 #20
My father sure didn't. zanana1 Jul 2018 #21
5. Hormones if its a store egg.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 11:40 AM
Jul 2018

We still get store eggs sometimes and we got a run of double yolks, figure it's excess hormones...true they need to be roostered to hatch...

MissMillie

(38,562 posts)
8. genetics, maybe?
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 12:04 PM
Jul 2018

Humans have eggs that split, and it's hereditary.


(Just say, "Thank you Captain Obvious!&quot

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
13. Lol, who knows? I love it though. Always fun to find. Only the biggest chicken does this, not
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 01:02 PM
Jul 2018

the smaller ones.

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
10. Thanks for the replies. I've been interested in raising chickens but I'll have to
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 12:25 PM
Jul 2018

continue to eat store bought. The presence of chickens and eggs will bring in even more coyotes, bobcats, and snakes than usual. My one horse has already been bitten four different times by rattlers. They come into the barn area to eat the eggs the quails lay.

Kali

(55,014 posts)
15. 4 times?!!
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 01:18 PM
Jul 2018

is it usable? usually when a horse has survived a snake bite they are pretty much useless any more after that. I had a dog that kept getting bit but she finally died after the 4th time.

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
17. Thanks to the wonders of alternative medicine he survived each rattlesnake bite and we continued
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 06:46 PM
Jul 2018

to ride the trails until I retired him last year. He is 31 years old.

Kali

(55,014 posts)
19. Well palliative care is about all you can do anyway. My experience with livestock and snakebites
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 07:45 PM
Jul 2018

is they either make it or they don't. Antivenin is expensive as hell and I don't know if you can even get it for veterinary purposes any more. Doesn't much matter what you do but keep them near food and water. I suspect some or all of your animal's bites were close to dry bites or there is no way you could have kept using him.

extreme swelling to lower legs and feet can founder a horse and bites to the face will often cause breathing problems and that tends to make them kind of brain dead ever after - maybe an explanation for not avoiding multiple bites? Scary dealing with it, I know. My youngest son was bitten when he was 18 months old. took a helicopter ride and 12 vials of antivenin. Glad we had a local hospital and Dr that knew what to do.

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
11. Not common, but I found one once, and it was 'store bought'
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 12:32 PM
Jul 2018

Now, a triple yolker, that would be something the crow about

thbobby

(1,474 posts)
12. My grandparents raised free range chickens when I was a child
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 01:00 PM
Jul 2018

Double yolk eggs are uncommon but does occasionally happen.

Kali

(55,014 posts)
14. it is more common than you might think
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 01:12 PM
Jul 2018

usually get sorted out at the "factory" so you normally can't buy them. there is a restaurant in Tucson that serves double yolk eggs as a bit of a gimmick. (the Hungry Fox on Broadway if anybody cares

I have had them from hens inconsistently, in other words I don't think you can select/breed for the trait. don't know if twin hatchings happen.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
16. Exactly
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 01:36 PM
Jul 2018

Mass egg producers will typically cull out the double yolks, so if you have your own chickens or get them from a smaller producer doubles are more common, but still quite infrequent.

If you are cooking them alone, then doubles are something of a novelty, but they can throw off some recipes because the types of proteins are in different quantities. It's not really a big deal, but enough of one that mass producers try to cull them so that they have a more consistent product.

zanana1

(6,122 posts)
21. My father sure didn't.
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 09:12 AM
Jul 2018

He bought a bunch of chicks, built a chicken coop, etc. He was born and raised in the city, no farming experience. The chicks started growing until finally one morning, we heard a rooster crow. It turned out they were all roosters! He never heard the end of it.

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