I coordinate a couple of local food clubs in my area of town, and we recently began purchasing eggs from a different farmer. These eggs are amazing and quite unlike anything you’ve ever purchased at the store I’m quite sure – organic or not!
Ever seen double yolk eggs before, not just one in a blue moon, but LOTS of them?Â
The egg delivery I received this week had eggs so large that some of them looked like duck eggs. In addition, half or maybe more were double yolk eggs! It is easy to see why eggs like this are never in stores. There is little chance they would even fit in a standard size carton!
In addition, eggs this size typically come from layers that are older. Since chickens that mass produce eggs don’t live very long due to unfavorable living conditions, this would also keep egg size in check.
If you’ve never seen eggs like this, why not? Are you still supporting the industrial food complex by buying your eggs at the store, which are, in many cases, months old?
Even organic eggs from the store are no comparison. Just get some farm fresh eggs and compare the difference. Deep golden to orange yolks, much bigger size, stronger shell, better taste, double yolks, cheaper price.
You don’t need any double blind studies to see and taste the difference. Your five senses will do you just fine, thank you!
By the way, if double yolk chicken eggs aren’t easily available to you, look for goose eggs instead. They are becoming more widely available and the larger yolk makes them comparably as rich as their double yolked cousins.
*Thank you to Paul Hardiman for emailing this mouth watering picture to me shortly after Tuesday’s pickup. What a fantastic brunch you enjoyed, Paul!
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
“You don’t need any double blind studies to see and taste the difference.”
True that! Thats why are society is wasting away in poor health, they’ve been too brainwashed by mainstream pseudo-science! Trust nature, not chemicals.
Those look yummy! And while I know farm fresh eggs are better, they are definitely not cheaper around here. But I still buy them because I know how much better they are for me and my family. One day we hope to have laying hens, but that’s not going to work right now with a new baby due in a month.
Yes! Our farm fresh eggs had 2 double yolked eggs in one dozen last week. It really is no comparison on quality.
I don’t know much about chicken raising, but I’m interested to learn more. One thing that has dawned on me since joining the Real Food Movement is how far we are removed from our food source! I mean, duh, I know eggs come from chickens, but other than that… not much. I’m pretty sure we eat unfertilized eggs, right? So how does a double yolk happen? Wouldn’t that be twinning? Can an egg split into a twin without being fertilized? I guess since having identical twin girls myself, I’m more interested in twinning! Looks like I need to do some more research to satisfy my curiosity!
By the way, when I was growing up, a double yolk for breakfast always meant you were going to have a lucky day.
Last year I got a full dozen double yolk eggs. I loved every single bite! And I keep hoping for more! 🙂
I’ve never bought a lottery ticket in my entire life. However, if I got 3 double yolk eggs in row I’d be buying a ticket. 🙂
I agree! 🙂
I just recently had a carton of eggs in which 3/4 were double-yolked. Now the interesting thing about this was that while they were locally-produced, they are from a brand of eggs that are widely available in our state. They do tend to have yellow-orange yolks, but nothing like the orange yolks I once got from a friend’s fully-pastured eggs.
The other interesting thing about these eggs is that they were Jumbo eggs. I’ve never purchased Jumbo eggs before — but we eat so many, and they were the same price as the Large ones, I thought, “Why not?” My sister’s theory is that the Jumbo eggs are just frequently twins.
So, sorry, I’m not sure how my eggs fit into the industrial food complex (while they are local, it’s a large producer), but I am not sure that double-yolks are necessarily indicative of high egg quality. They are the more expensive eggs at the regular grocery store, and are available at all the health food stores, too, sold as “Free Range.”
I’m interested to know what you consider a large producer? By the way, it’s easy to fake out the customer with orange yolks .. just mix a bit of beta carotene in the chicken feed. The only real way to tell if the eggs are good is the strength of the shell, in my experience. If the shell is strong AND the yolks are orange, you’ve got yourself a good egg. Double yolks, are, of course, a bonus.
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We have some chicken raising experience – 3 years of raising backyard chickens. My experience is that the double yolks only came during the first half a year or so of our chickens starting to lay. Our neighbor also sells eggs and his double yolks come during that first year. We haven’t had a double yolk from our own chickens since those first months they layed. Seems like it’s just a fluke of the chicken getting the whole “system” worked out as they start to lay. The double yolks will also only be in those jumbo eggs, which is why you most likely never got one from the grocery store.
Also the shells of young layers are much harder than older hens. As our first hens neared 3 years old we noticed a big difference in the shells, as well as the whites being much runnier. The chickens were just getting older. They were still free ranged and fed the same feed.
Our free range yolks are bright orange, much oranger than our neighbor’s totally enclosed chickens. My daughter just got a double yolk today from the neighbor eggs and brought up the subject about them being twins and how that would work. Fun!
I love double yolks! Our chickens have finally started laying enough where we’ve been able to rely solely on our own eggs. Double yolks are always a treat. Twice the nutrition is never a problem in my book. 😉
That’s why I actually returned a bunch of store-bought eggs today. I can’t wait to get my 5 dozen next Tuesday, Sarah. Now whenever I do buy eggs from the store (which is sporadic b/c of poor planning), I pity myself.
I buy our eggs directly from our dairy farmer, an Amish man who uses a lot of the same methods as Joel Salatin (including using the chickens to clean up after the cows). Best eggs ever. Just once, last year, I got an ENTIRE DOZEN double-yolkers. I’d love to have that happen again..
Oh, that is so cool!