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Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:23 am ]
Post subject:  Egg Luck
Just a question about odds. Anyone know what the odds are of cracking two eggs and getting double yolks in each one?

Wish I'd taken a pic now.
Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Luck
That's quite difficult to calculate, but I suspect if a batch of eggs contains one double yolker then it's not that surprising to fond a second one. Some hens lay a lot of them, while most rarely if ever lay them.

I've only had one in my life, and I guess I must have cracked a couple of thousand.
Author:  AlunD [ Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Luck
about 5 years back we had a double then a single then a double in 3 eggs. :D (Sainsbury's best )
Author:  ProfessorF [ Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Luck
cloaked_wolf wrote:
Just a question about odds. Anyone know what the odds are of cracking two eggs and getting double yolks in each one?

Wish I'd taken a pic now.


Well, it's a one in a thousand eggs that are double yolkers. So I'm told. By the Daily Mail. (See article below.)
So, presumably, the odds don't vary between eggs. You might have one had one double yolk egg, but that doesn't affect the chances of the next one being a double, or does it? Logic would say not, surely? :?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... yoker.html
Author:  JJW009 [ Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Luck
ProfessorF wrote:
You might have one had one double yolk egg, but that doesn't affect the chances of the next one being a double, or does it?

The article you linked to agrees with what I did in my earlier post. Namely, yes - the events are not independent.

Quote:
all the eggs in this box probably came from the same flock.

Flocks of hens tend to be all of roughly the same age, in this case ones that have only just started laying.

This increases the likelihood of their laying multi-yolked eggs and decreases the odds from one in 1,000 to, maybe, one in 30 or so
Author:  Spreadie [ Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Egg Luck
My uncle gets his eggs from a local farmer near Dunfermline, 30 at a time. Usually only a couple of them are single yolk eggs.

I always bring a tray home with me when I visit.
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