2 yolks in one egg.

There's nothing wrong with eggs that have two yolks...eat your eggs.

Two yolks are fine, just adds extra protein from the additional yolks. If you buy farm fresh eggs, you will find this is a common surprise. A little more rare but does happen is triple yolk eggs... they have very little egg whites at all!

Enjoy!

PS no you will not have twin babies because of your eggs ;-)

Yup! My mom used to say it was good luck...

Superstition. Cute.

It's common in farm eggs. Just extra protein.

We get double yolkers sometimes and oh the flavour. My parents also have son bantam hens now and we give my egg loving daughter the little ones. They seem to me almost all yolk.

1/1000 eggs are a double yolk. Having 2 at once? 1/1,000,000

My teen daughter got two in a row recently and it freaked her out. I did some research and it's not that uncommon to have more than one 'twin' in a carton because it happens most when the hens are young and on their first ovulation, and the new hens are kept together. In that 18-pack we had three 'twins', I think.

Here is a story of someone getting six in a row.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247872/Woman-finds-double-egg-yolks-box-beating-trillion-odds.html

You don't get extra protein from a 'twin yolk' but less protein and more fat. The white of the egg is the protein rich part. The yolk is the fatty part.

You need to buy non-GMO, vaccine-free, toxin-free, and gluten-free eggs laid from free-range chickens from the Huckster's Happy Chicken Farm.

Don't listen to these people, OP. My eggs got me pregnant.

Some chicken was supposed to have twins. Whether they would have been Monozygotic or Dizygotic the world will never know!

You don't get extra protein from a 'twin yolk' but less protein and more fat. The white of the egg is the protein rich part. The yolk is the fatty part.

Not entirely accurate--the yolk contains roughly 3g of protein and 5g fat, as well as fat-soluble vitamins, essential fatty acids and other important nutrients. If you like 'em, eat 'em!

Better than two girls one cup.

You don't get extra protein from a 'twin yolk' but less protein and more fat. The white of the egg is the protein rich part. The yolk is the fatty part.

Not entirely accurate--the yolk contains roughly 3g of protein and 5g fat, as well as fat-soluble vitamins, essential fatty acids and other important nutrients. If you like 'em, eat 'em!

I love yolks but my logic is that since the extra yolk replaces some of the white, which is fat-free and higher in protein than the yolk, the end result is an egg higher in fat and lower in protein, right? But the yolks with 'twins' are actually two smaller yolks so the white amount and yolk amount might be the same in either case. But I don't think a 'twin' egg would have higher protein.

We used to have our own chickens in the back yard

Got a double yolk egg from time to time - round about once every few weeks.

Of course causing twins in humans is nothing but an old wives superstition.

We used to have our own chickens in the back yard

Got a double yolk egg from time to time - round about once every few weeks.

Of course causing twins in humans is nothing but an old wives superstition.

my mom was just joking and she is younger than you.

"Old wives' tale" is a phrase. It's not implying anything about your mother personally. :laugh:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_wives'_tale

There was a place where we bought farm fresh jumbo eggs, and more than half would usually have 2 yolks. I loved it because I could make an omelette with fewer eggs.