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Twins!
Apr 15, 2006 15:15:24 GMT -5
Post by mickster on Apr 15, 2006 15:15:24 GMT -5
Last week I went grocery shopping at Walmart, got a couple dozen jumbo size eggs. In the carton I've been eating from (eight so far) every one of them had double yokes. Twins in every egg. Amazing.
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Twins!
Apr 15, 2006 15:18:34 GMT -5
Post by missteetheironchef on Apr 15, 2006 15:18:34 GMT -5
I experienced the same thing, mickey, you're not alone!
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Twins!
Apr 15, 2006 15:45:27 GMT -5
Post by allezcuisine on Apr 15, 2006 15:45:27 GMT -5
Wow! I wonder if there is some way farmers can make that happen...
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Apr 15, 2006 17:15:56 GMT -5
Post by mickster on Apr 15, 2006 17:15:56 GMT -5
I've seen it occasionally, before, but this carton has double yoke in every egg. Maybe it has something to do with what they feed the chickens. And, these eggs really taste good! I could eat them at every two meals a day.
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Twins!
Apr 15, 2006 17:17:45 GMT -5
Post by kadaj on Apr 15, 2006 17:17:45 GMT -5
Maybe it is genetics within that family of chickens, at the farm. Mickey if you eat too many eggs, too often, you can become allergic to them, be careful.
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Twins!
Apr 15, 2006 18:25:05 GMT -5
Post by allezcuisine on Apr 15, 2006 18:25:05 GMT -5
Maybe it is genetics within that family of chickens, at the farm. Mickey if you eat too many eggs, too often, you can become allergic to them, be careful. I've never heard of that. Very interesting. I don't eat eggs anyway, LOL.
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Apr 15, 2006 18:46:26 GMT -5
Post by Arrianna on Apr 15, 2006 18:46:26 GMT -5
Usually the allergies are to the chemicals found in the eggs not eggs themselves. While food allergies can occur there has to be a trigger such as stress not just overconsumption.
Which brings me to my thought. If you got that many double yolk eggs I wonder just what kind of hormone they were feeding those chickens?
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Twins!
Apr 15, 2006 19:10:51 GMT -5
Post by allezcuisine on Apr 15, 2006 19:10:51 GMT -5
Which brings me to my thought. If you got that many double yolk eggs I wonder just what kind of hormone they were feeding those chickens? Which is one scary thought.
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Twins!
Apr 15, 2006 20:29:47 GMT -5
Post by mickster on Apr 15, 2006 20:29:47 GMT -5
Whatever it is, it sure makes the eggs taste good. I only eat two a day, for breakfast but I could eat lots more of these eggs. Seams there is controversary over everything we eat now days, and then down the road someone comes out with news that something previously thought to be bad for us really isn't, so.......who knows anymore.
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Twins!
Apr 16, 2006 11:07:12 GMT -5
Post by Arrianna on Apr 16, 2006 11:07:12 GMT -5
lol. Oh it can happen naturally. My mom raises chickens and she had one that would lay a high number of "twins". I've just heard that they often feed chickens hormones to keep them laying longer. Seems to me some type of fetility hormone could affect that as well. After all, it leads to multiple births in humans.
...and yea, they taste great. ;D
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Apr 28, 2006 23:46:51 GMT -5
Post by kadaj on Apr 28, 2006 23:46:51 GMT -5
Why do they feed chickens hormones?
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Apr 29, 2006 16:11:37 GMT -5
Post by Arrianna on Apr 29, 2006 16:11:37 GMT -5
I looked it up. They don't anymore. It was done for a time to try and increase egg production but evidently it didn't work very well. So Mickster just got really lucky. Those double eggs yolks are good eats.
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Apr 29, 2006 16:46:33 GMT -5
Post by kadaj on Apr 29, 2006 16:46:33 GMT -5
Howcome some chicken eggs are brown, and the others are white?
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Apr 29, 2006 17:06:32 GMT -5
Post by Arrianna on Apr 29, 2006 17:06:32 GMT -5
Chicken eggs come naturally in multiple colors. Maufacturors simply stuck to breeds that produce white eggs because it appealed to consumers. At one time my mothers chickens we're giving us green, blue-green, brown, speckled, and white eggs.
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Apr 29, 2006 20:26:35 GMT -5
Post by kadaj on Apr 29, 2006 20:26:35 GMT -5
Wow, cool Arrianna. I've never heard of blue chicken eggs before.
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