I love trying different types of eggs, so in the winter when we let our chickens rest I buy eggs from a local farm store that sells local eggs, including non chicken eggs. Last batch I bought some duck eggs, which included a couple of MASSIVE eggs I was fairly sure included double yolks. How could I know? It’s a fairly common occurrence in early spring when egg layers start laying again, specially for a hen’s first year, and those eggs tend to be a tad larger. It also possible for a larger egg to contain multiple shells from an egg basically going back up for some reason and an extra shell (or more) developing over the previous shell, but in the years we’ve had chickens I’ve only seen that once, and it was crazy looking on the outside.

While making breakfast one day I decided to use my duck eggs, first one out of the shell was indeed a double yolker. Only this double was much more rare and unique, IT WAS CONJOINED! Yes boy and girls (and everyone in between) I found a conjoined yolk! I even tried to separate it to make sure I was right. My first thought was “What a bummer, I could have had a mutated duck”, even though I know the likelihood of it making it to hatching is almost nil…. and of course negating the fact that it had been refrigerated and possibly not fertilized. I really wish I had been making fried eggs instead of scrambled.

A couple of days later I was telling K I had not hard boiled the other big eggs, hoping to find at least a regular double yolker, after all I like the yolks best. Out of my mouth pops…

“I like big yolks and I can not lie”

K cracked up and insisted I put that up on here. I still haven’t hard boiled those eggs, when I do if I find more than one yolk I’ll grab pictures for everyone.