Eggstremely rare and amazing: woman finds a four-yolked egg

Amazing four-yolked egg

Finding four yolks inside a single egg is extremely rare. In fact, the odds are 11 billion to one! So when Jan Long, 63, spotted a gigantic egg in a Gloucester shop where she volunteers, she definitely wasn’t expecting it to have four yolks or better still, the probability of it being one of its kind produced in the UK this year.

The egg was said to be three times the size of a normal egg and weighed nearly four ounces. According to Mrs. Long: 'We had never seen anything that big before. Everyone in the shop was interested in it, but I'm quick off the mark. I had to have it. Even the customers were amazed.'
The last time a quadruple-yolker made the news was in 2010 and was found by a Newcastle pensioner.

The egg was three times the size of a normal egg

Kevin Coles, of the British Egg Information Service, said: 'The chances of an egg coming out with a double yolk are 0.1 per cent, so even finding a double yolk is quite unusual.
Poultry experts regard double yolks as a 'mistake' in the hen's reproductive system.
Tim Daniels, founder of Poultrykeeper.com, added: 'It is rare but people also find more than two yolks in a multiple yolk egg. The most yolks ever found in an egg was nine.'