Had a week where every single egg was a double yolker

I usually get maybe 2 double yolk eggs a month from my flock of 6, but last week I cracked open 12 eggs in a row and every single one had two yolks in it. Did I just get lucky or is this something that happens when your hens are all young and just starting to lay?

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stellafisher10d ago

Did your friend have the same thing happen with their young hens? I had a buddy who got like 15 double yolkers in a row from his new layers last spring, and he swore it was just because they were all starting to lay at once.

parker_bell4d ago

Yeah that's pretty much what happened with me. I had a batch of pullets start laying last March and the first two weeks I was getting double yolks out of almost every egg. It was a pain because they didn't fit in my regular cartons and I had to use the bigger ones. One of my old hens that was already laying normal eggs would crack one open and it was just a regular size yolk, nothing special. But the young ones kept popping out these huge ones for maybe two or three weeks before they settled down. I think it's their bodies just figuring out the whole system, like the comment said. After that first month, everything went back to normal.

charlie_fisher4510d agoMost Upvoted

Actually it happens more with young hens, not just starting to lay but still sorting out their reproductive system.