A dozen jumbo eggs can cost from $2.50 to $3 around these parts. These parts being Queens/Long Island. So when Compare Foods had a dozen jumbo eggs on sale for .79, they were quickly boughtened. 2 dozen boughtened as a matter of fact. These eggs were a brand I never heard of before: Dakota Layers. Makes sense since I live no where near either of the Dakotas. Except for the one where John Lennon was killed. That’s pretty close. But I’m sure they don’t hatch eggs there.
Anyhoo, the last of those two dozen eggs was eaten today. One of them had a double yolk. That made, in total, 5 double yolked eggs in the two dozen we bought. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate a little extra yolk in my fried eggs but, along with it’s one third the regular price AND its foreign origins, I’m thinking maybe these chickens were pecking into some industrial sludge back at the coop.
Whattaya think? Is everyone in my family going to grow a third eye?
My mom raises a few chickens. Most of the eggs she gets have the usual yolk count, but they’re all huge. Once, she got one that was a full four ounces. Yes, I’m sure it wasn’t actually a goose.
Different breeds of chickens will produce different sized eggs and some breeds do have a higher instance of double yolks.
Although I do like the image of Marge’s blue hair bobbing up between the nesting boxes as she gathers the eggs, with little Maggie face planting along behind her.
They could have just been from a flock of really young birds. When our hens first started laying, we were getting about 4 double-yolked eggs a week. From six birds.
