Double yolkers are lucky, right?

[Vermilion]

Cos I'm waiting for the Fiance to get back from his PhD Viva - a long and in-depth oral examination covering his thesis. I was making cupcakes (hopefully congratulations ones) and the second egg I broke had a double yolk. I looked at the clock and it was exactly the time his Viva should have started - good omen? Oh please please please - I hope he does well and they don;t make him have to do loads of corrections.

x
V <on tenterhooks and trying not to eat all the cupcakes out of nervousness)

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I don't know about double-yolked eggs but I've always thought that cupcakes were lucky . . . and picnic baskets, too!

 

[glynndah]

More than you ever wanted to know...

About double-yolked eggs...

Some hens will lay double-yolked eggs as the result of unsynchronized production cycles. Although heredity causes some hens to have a higher propensity to lay double-yolked eggs, these occur more frequently as occasional abnormalities in young hens beginning to lay.[citation needed] Usually a double-yolked egg will be longer and thinner than an ordinary single-yolk egg. Double-yolked eggs occur rarely, only leading to observed successful hatchings under human intervention, as the unborn chickens would otherwise fight each other and die.[16]

But if there are two chickens inside, they will almost invariably fight each other. Neither of them will be able to get to the air cell, so they both die.
However, there have been a few very rare cases where the egg has been very carefully opened at exactly the right time (in a kind of mini-Caesarian), and two chickens have survived from a double-yolked egg.

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Just wondering if anyone knows the significance in folklore of eating/finding a double-yolked egg. (Not really related to anything except my breakfast. But I'm curious.)

Finding a double yolked egg is lucky... (because you get two yolks!)

In traditional English folklore finding an egg with no yolk is no joke because it's supposedly unlucky... (especially for the hen because it's a sign that she's a bit elderly for laying and will probably be eaten soon!) ...and some people supposedly believed that no-yolkers were laid by cockerels (and that if cockerel eggs are allowed to hatch they produce monsters like the cockatrice... eek!).

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Throughout history and in different cultures, finding a double yolk has been considered to mean anything from an impending wedding to a financial windfall to a death in the family. Hubby is first-generation Italian (father Sicilian, mother from Bari). He tells me good fortune is about to come our way every time I crack open one of these twinsies. Kind of like a four-leaved clover to me, I guess.


All cut and pasted from various websites. I have no clue as to the truthfulness of the things. My husband raises chickens and we occasionally get a double-yolked egg from one of the younger chickens. I don't remember being particularly lucky on those days.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I wonder if a double yolk egg was allowed to hatch if you get a two headed chicken?

 

[buxxxom]

Take a bit of luck wherever you find it, V.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

About double-yolked eggs...

Some hens will lay double-yolked eggs as the result of unsynchronized production cycles. Although heredity causes some hens to have a higher propensity to lay double-yolked eggs, these occur more frequently as occasional abnormalities in young hens beginning to lay.[citation needed] Usually a double-yolked egg will be longer and thinner than an ordinary single-yolk egg. Double-yolked eggs occur rarely, only leading to observed successful hatchings under human intervention, as the unborn chickens would otherwise fight each other and die.[16]

But if there are two chickens inside, they will almost invariably fight each other. Neither of them will be able to get to the air cell, so they both die.
However, there have been a few very rare cases where the egg has been very carefully opened at exactly the right time (in a kind of mini-Caesarian), and two chickens have survived from a double-yolked egg.

***

Just wondering if anyone knows the significance in folklore of eating/finding a double-yolked egg. (Not really related to anything except my breakfast. But I'm curious.)

Finding a double yolked egg is lucky... (because you get two yolks!)

In traditional English folklore finding an egg with no yolk is no joke because it's supposedly unlucky... (especially for the hen because it's a sign that she's a bit elderly for laying and will probably be eaten soon!) ...and some people supposedly believed that no-yolkers were laid by cockerels (and that if cockerel eggs are allowed to hatch they produce monsters like the cockatrice... eek!).

***
Throughout history and in different cultures, finding a double yolk has been considered to mean anything from an impending wedding to a financial windfall to a death in the family. Hubby is first-generation Italian (father Sicilian, mother from Bari). He tells me good fortune is about to come our way every time I crack open one of these twinsies. Kind of like a four-leaved clover to me, I guess.


All cut and pasted from various websites. I have no clue as to the truthfulness of the things. My husband raises chickens and we occasionally get a double-yolked egg from one of the younger chickens. I don't remember being particularly lucky on those days.

Interesting! Both my paternal grandparents were from the Bari area and I never got told anything like that. All we ever heard was mother fussing about the alleged extra cholesteral in them.

 

[NoJo]

a long and in-depth oral examination covering his thesis.

mmm...

 

[Vermilion]

HE DID IT!!!!!!!!!

I'm gonna be marrying me a doctor - my fambly will be so darn proud!

As for me, well, I'm just busting with pride myself. Clever boy.

Those two yolkers? Definitely worth looking out for!

x
V

 

[Just-Legal]

HE DID IT!!!!!!!!!

I'm gonna be marrying me a doctor - my fambly will be so darn proud!

As for me, well, I'm just busting with pride myself. Clever boy.

Those two yolkers? Definitely worth looking out for!

x
V

Congrats gorgeous

 

[redpaint]

Congrats to the bouth of you. Yip I would call them lucky eggs