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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: BlueDaisy on April 29, 2011, 07:52:10 am

Title: Quadruple Yolker!!!!
Post by: BlueDaisy on April 29, 2011, 07:52:10 am: :o Yesterday morning I cracked open a 98g egg laid by our buff orpington hen last Thursday (now living with dizzy1pig). Thought I would treat myself as I was sure it would be a double yolker. To my complete astonishment it was a quadruple yolker!! :o :o :o
Of course, in my excitement I burnt everything else in the pan, but the egg was lovely ::) :P
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Post by: daddymatty82 on April 29, 2011, 08:09:54 am: what a nice egg lol ;D
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Post by: tazbabe on April 29, 2011, 08:31:01 am: wow!!!
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Post by: dizzy1pig on April 29, 2011, 10:43:06 am: mmmm... she has not laid one o them for me yet.... :wave:
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Post by: ambriel on April 29, 2011, 10:49:41 am: Blimey! How big was the shell? Is she walking funny?
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Post by: doganjo on April 29, 2011, 01:59:23 pm: Quote from: BlueDaisy on April 29, 2011, 07:52:10 am
:o Yesterday morning I cracked open a 98g egg laid by our buff orpington hen last Thursday (now living with dizzy1pig). Thought I would treat myself as I was sure it would be a double yolker. To my complete astonishment it was a quadruple yolker!! :o :o :o
Of course, in my excitement I burnt everything else in the pan, but the egg was lovely ::) :P
AND you broke the yolks when putting them in the pan!!!! ::) ;D ;D
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Post by: goosepimple on April 29, 2011, 02:20:55 pm: ....and broker them in to the shape of the spitfire that went over Kate and Wills on the palace balcony! Well done! ;D
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Post by: Fleecewife on April 29, 2011, 02:32:21 pm: Quote from: goosepimple on April 29, 2011, 02:20:55 pm

....and broker them in to the shape of the spitfire that went over Kate and Wills on the palace balcony! Well done! ;D

:D :D :D
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Post by: BlueDaisy on April 29, 2011, 05:39:45 pm: Quote from: Fleecewife on April 29, 2011, 02:32:21 pm
Quote from: goosepimple on April 29, 2011, 02:20:55 pm

....and broker them in to the shape of the spitfire that went over Kate and Wills on the palace balcony! Well done! ;D

:D :D :D

Well that was me being artistic!! :P ;D :P ;D
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Post by: doganjo on April 29, 2011, 09:25:38 pm: Very observant! I never noticed the shape ;D
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Post by: hughesy on April 30, 2011, 09:56:14 pm: One of our ex bats has laid an egg weighihg 105 grammes today. Just weighed some of the usual size ones and they're 65-70g. I'm dying to see if it's got multiple yolks but somehow I don't want to break it.
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Post by: SallyintNorth on April 30, 2011, 10:01:49 pm: It's a great treat getting the double (and more!) yolkers. I used to find I got more of them when the weather was bad - eventually I worked out that if it was rainy or snowy they stayed in and ate their ad-lib pellets, whereas if it was nice they went out and ranged about. Now I only give them as many pellets as I want them to have in the morning and I get regular-sized eggs (and well-exercised and varied-diet hens.) (And yes I give them more during the day if it's horrid and they can't range.)
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Post by: Beewyched on April 30, 2011, 10:06:28 pm: Ah - now that makes sense - never thought about it before, but we only ever get doublers in the winter - now I know why ;) ;D
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Post by: doganjo on April 30, 2011, 10:24:46 pm: I had a double yolk duck egg couple of weeks ago - full sunshine, temperatures around 14/15. I had cracked it into Hester's bowl without checking the weight even though it was larger than the others. Just had a thought about the timing of that. She had a minor stroke a few days later - that couldn't have caused it could it?