eight-yolked egg

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I thought this was quite neat (photo on the link)
Eight-yolker an eggs-traordinary find - oddstuff | Stuff.co.nz
A Waikato woman claims she made an eggs-traordinary discovery while making breakfast this morning - an egg containing eight yolks.

This picture was sent in to The Press, to show the eight yolks found inside the free range egg.

The woman, known only as Roberta, got the "surprise of her life" when she discovered that all eight yolks came from the same egg.

Roberta was making scrambled eggs for her grandson, Jonathan, when she made the discovery.

She was "a bit worried" about eating the egg but cooked it up anyway and her grandson said that it tasted great.

The egg was laid by one of the hen's Roberta keeps, Charlotte and Angela.

Roberta's neighbour, Bill Carter, who took the photograph, said the most yolks he had ever seen from one egg was two.

"So, eight is just incredible. We thought that some of your readers might be interested.

"I showed the photo to some of our neighbours and they thought that it might be a New Zealand record," he said.

Vanessa Wintle, Egg Producers' Federation of New Zealand (Inc) said while double-yolked eggs were common, to find eight was ''pretty exceptional''.

Wintle said one of her colleagues in the egg industry - who had worked both in the United Kingdon and New Zealand - had only ever heard of this phenomenon three times in her entire career.

Multiple-yolk eggs occur when the hen's ovulation cycle occurs more rapidly than usual, or when one yolk becomes joined with another yolk.

''As we understand, the greatest number of yolks ever found in an egg was nine - so this egg isn't quite there!'' Wintle said.

Wintle said it is estimated that one in a thousand eggs were double-yolkers.
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I work at a Free Range egg farm once a week, I've had many double yolkers and the occasional Triple one, but this is pretty cool!
 
If you work at an egg farm, why are you breaking the eggs?

:p

Hix
 
LOL
Because my egg farm employers are such nice people that they donate 360 seconds eggs a week to the Zoo, ones that are too big or too small to sell normally. So we get all the big ones that are Double/Triple Yolkers!
 
My mum bought 2 half-dozen boxes eggs one Friday and on Saturday morning she was making scrambled eggs and out of the first box, 5 out of 6 were double yolkers. The second box had 4 out of 6 so

"Wintle said it is estimated that one in a thousand eggs were double-yolkers."

is either a lie or we were extreamly lucky:p:D
 
this is probably going to make me sound dumb but if a double yolked egg was fertilised whould twin chicks hatch out?
 
Mr Saxon said:
My mum bought 2 half-dozen boxes eggs one Friday and on Saturday morning she was making scrambled eggs and out of the first box, 5 out of 6 were double yolkers. The second box had 4 out of 6 so

"Wintle said it is estimated that one in a thousand eggs were double-yolkers."

is either a lie or we were extreamly lucky:p:D
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All depends what size egg you buy, the bigger the egg the more likely for 2+ yolks
 
torie said:
this is probably going to make me sound dumb but if a double yolked egg was fertilised whould twin chicks hatch out?
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not a dumb question, and the answer is yes. The first recorded case of identical twin birds was reported in 1998. The bird in question was the emu. "The twin-bearing egg, significantly larger than any other egg in the same clutch, was artificially incubated and hatching assistance was necessary. At hatching the female twins were small, but their combined weight approximated that of a single chick from an egg of equivalent weight, and by 18 months of age they were near average in size. DNA analysis of blood collected from the twins showed a complete match with 22 bands per sample larger than 3.8 kb, indicating a high probability that the twins were identical."

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....begging the follow-up question, would it be possible to get identical octuplets hatching from an eight-yolked hen's egg? I would suggest that in theory, yes, in actuality, no
 
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