How Did He Know

[weecalf]

Saw at a market a man was selling double yoke eggs.Question how did he know am I missing something

[boxtops]

He wouldn't. unless he had some sort of scanner to see inside the eggs!

[sandyRoe]

The yokes on the people who buy them. If they get them home and find they're only the usual eggs what could they do?

[excelsior-1]

maybe he was just eggs-agerating

[DaisyNonna]

I bought half a dozen eggs a couple of weeks ago. Each was double yolked.

[DTCwordfan]

Did you shell out for some then, weecalf?

[weecalf]

Was gonna ask him but had second thoughts ,just did not buy any

[ferlew]

You could 'candle' them.

[CokeTulip]

Like the guy selling safe bleach! (Had his child drinking it out of the bottle to demo how safe. It takes some nerve.
It was bottles of water £1/bottle. People bought it.

[jno]

yes, hold a torch up to them. They're usually bigger than regular eggs.

[DTCwordfan]

I've got some Cornish pixies in Kindle glass jars that you can buy. £25 each - an ideal present for the mother-in-law......

[ferlew]

Kindle glass jars ?

[ferlew]

Ahhhh Kilner ??

[DTCwordfan]

Indeed, it must be Freudian, ferlew......

[RATTER15]

I think they usually can tell by the age of the hens, and the breed of hen, some breeds are known to produce double yolks at certain ages, also the eggs tend to be a little bigger than normal for that breed, I get them myself occasionally, I usually know if they are double Yonkers but not always.

[Clanad]

Ferlew's answer is exactly right… time was all eggs were 'candled" before being sent off for sale. A light device made for the task was used and each egg was held up to the light in turn. The purpose was to detect and remove any fertilized eggs, since there would be a blood spot in the egg. However, the technique works well for detecting double-yolked eggs as well...

[trt]

You could have asked him to crack them open before buying!

[Brinjal]

We had a chicken that only laid double yolker. She would only lay every second day and it was alway a double yolker

[RATTER15]

No Clanad, I think he was wrong, commercial breeders are not going to candle all their eggs,

[RATTER15]

Sorry, I meant commercial egg producers.

[RATTER15]

It appears we are both correct, some are candled, some are a little bit guess work, some farmers just know what hens are going to lay double yokers and then they know by the larger eggs for that particular breed, that is how they do it around here anyway.