A little wonder, every day
Several yolks inside one shell
Звичайне двожовткове яйце на сковороді; не дев’ятижовтковий випадок 1971 року / An ordinary double-yolk egg in a frying pan; not the reported nine-yolk egg from 1971. Credit: tednmiki; CC BY-SA 3.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=33418596
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A hen egg can occasionally contain two or more yolks: several yolks can enter the oviduct close together and become enclosed in one shell. This does not imply the same number of viable chicks. Guinness records a report of nine yolks in one hen egg from a New York farm in July 1971. It is a dated recorded case, rather than a usual yolk count or a record we independently verified as current today.
