On rare occasions, some eggs will have two yolks.
And in Sandy Steinbergâs case, she cracked an egg on Dec. 18 to find not one, but four yolks â a discovery that has a very long odds. The British Egg Information Service estimates a double yolk to happen once in every 1,000 eggs, and a triple yolk to happen once in every in 25 million eggs. There are no official odds for four yolks.
Steinbergâs quadruple-yolker was found in a normal carton of large eggs from Dakota Layers, an egg farm in Flandreau. She had bought a few dozen from the County Fair Food Store in Mitchell as she and a few others from her church had planned to make and deliver Christmas cookies to some of their more elderly members.
The odds of discovering a quadruple-yolk egg are get this a staggering one in 11 billion Written By: Erik Kaufman | ×
Sandy Steinberg, of Alexandria, discovered a quadruple-yolk egg in the batch of eggs she purchased from County Fair in Mitchell recently. According to the British Egg Information Service, the odds of finding a quadruple-yolk egg are one in 11 billion. (Submitted Photo)
ALEXANDRIA, S.D. It was just a normal Friday morning for Sandy Steinberg until it came time to cook breakfast.
“At first glance I thought I had broken the yolk,” the Alexandria, S.D., woman said.
But what she had actually just cracked open was a quadruple-yolk egg. According to the British Egg Information Service, the odds of discovering a quadruple-yolker are a staggering
Odds of quadruple-yolk egg are one in 11 billion Written By: Erik Kaufman | ×
Sandy Steinberg, of Alexandria, discovered a quadruple-yolk egg in the batch of eggs she purchased from County Fair in Mitchell recently. According to the British Egg Information Service, the odds of finding a quadruple-yolk egg are one in 11 billion. (Submitted Photo)
ALEXANDRIA It was just a normal Friday morning for Sandy Steinberg until it came time to cook breakfast.
“At first glance I thought I had broken the yolk,” Steinberg said.
But what she had actually just cracked open was a quadruple-yolk egg. According to the British Egg Information Service, the odds of discovering a quadruple-yolker are one in 11 billion, according to a press release from Dakota Layers.