My Town Monday: Pine Hill Egg Ranch, Ramona, CA

Last Monday, I blogged about a visit to the Julian Tea and Cottage Arts. On the way back home, we stopped at the Pine Hill Egg Ranch in Ramona because my friend, Christina, was determined to find . . .

DOUBLE-YOLKED EGGS!! Well, find them we did! At the above location for about $2.00/dozen.

Doubled-yolked eggs?! I had never heard of the beast until Christina came up with the crazy quest. But, according to the sales person behind the counter, a pullet (hen under a year old) first lays very small eggs followed by a couple of weeks of double yolkers.

While poking around on the internet, I found some other interesting and odd facts about eggs:
-Hens that eat garlic, fish or fruit will lay yucky-tasting eggs.
-There is such a thing as a double-shelled egg.
-And there are even shell-less eggs.
-From the Guiness Book of Records: The world's largest chicken egg had FIVE yolks and a diameter of 9 inches. The world's heaviest egg weighed ONE POUND and had both a double yolk and a double shell.
-An egg without a yolk is called a "fart egg." (This term will be the source of much amusement among the Summy children.)

By the way, it's very hard to crack a double yolker without breaking one of the yolks.



A double-yolked egg (left) is much larger than its normal counterpart (right egg, Large, Grade A).

Please appreciate how much self-control I exercised in not ending with a yolk/joke line!


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sources:
http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html