double yolker!

[di]

got our 1st egg today!having told the children there prob wouldnt be any(farmer told us 2 expect a 3 week wait & only had them a week today)opened the coop to find treasure!after deciding whether andi or I should have it,cracked it in frying pan to reveal a double yolk!needless to say we shared it!

[Two_Sheds]

Lovely!
I cracked an egg this morning and it had a tiny lump in it ... chicken foetus ? I gagged; had to have porridge instead.

[Nicos]

Double yolker??? Fantastic!!!!!!!!

Do you know which hen laid it????- keep an eye on her...what a beauty eh??

2 sheds..........Do you have hens or was it shop bought???

[Two_Sheds]

Nicos ... it was shop-bought. The 'thing' looked like a little kidney bean, beige coloured, size of my little toenail.

[TPeers]

Could have been what is known as a meat spot, it is apparently some of the wall lining that gets 'mixed' into the egg as it passes through the hens system.

If it was a foetus then there would have been lots of red lines running from it around the yolk.

Mose 'egg' hen farms only have hens - no cockerels. If battery there is no room for them and if free range the cockerels can cause a reduction in egg laying so are 'unwelcome'.

In summary, it was highly unlikely to be a fertile egg - you're safe!

[Nicos]

Hey......look what I found!!!!

MHF - Candling - Meat Spots

[Two_Sheds]

Yes, it was indeed a meat spot. Never heard of that! Thanks guys. (I still wouldn't eat one)

[di]

got egg no.2 today!when we got to the plot ther was a little zebra finch(from where I don't know!?)but the egg in coop could almost have been hers!!maybe slight exageration but the egg only just bigger than my thumb!obviously she felt she'd spoilt us with the double yolker or wanted to make sure we saved this 1 for the children!!out of the 10 one has a far larger & redder comb so presuming shes the layer,although a couple dont look far behind.