Double yoke eggs

rebel yell · May 4, 2011

My two blue Orp. pullets have started laying & are laying double yoke eggs, will this stop ? or will it always be like that, the eggs are huge, & the pullets are about 8 months old, I was wanting to hatch some of them, but I dont think these will hatch, anybody ever had this to happen ?

Inkheart · May 4, 2011

I have only had a couple double yolk eggs - odd that they continue to lay them - hopefully someone else can bring some experience !

FarmerBoy24 · May 4, 2011

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You can hatch them but usually only one will survive. Sometimes 2 will, WoW your getting double olks from 8 month olds. Thats really cool.

duckyfromoz · May 4, 2011

Large Double yolkers have a better chance of hatching than a more normal sized egg that is a double yolker I would think after my own experience- but either way its very rare. I had a double yolker duck egg that I set last year - one duckling started to pip- it was the " behind" one. I was hopeful at that stage - but just hours later that were both dead. The one in front had its head the wrong way and would never have made it out of the egg.

Nothing wrong with trying it - just as long as you go in know what is most likely to happen. A lot of people may say is cruel- incubating them only to have then dire before hatching- but it happens so much with normal eggs as well- I just looked at it as an experiment I had to try once.

ScissorChick · May 4, 2011

My 10 month old hen just laid a double yolker.

Yes you can incubate them, but due to lack of space in the egg they very often develop nicely,

but die right before hatching. Somtimes one will make it. Remember, theres only one air sac, and

theres one chick in there that is going to have troubles getting to the air sac. Some have to help
them out, and it's just alot of work, I guess. I'm experimenting with it, even though most don't
recommend it, I am incubating one to see if it will develop, and see if it is actually a DY.

Happy Hatching!

ScissorChick

rebel yell · May 4, 2011

These eggs are big, think Im going to put a couple of them in the bator.

debilorrah · May 4, 2011

Young pullets often lay double yolkers for a few months. Then they start laying normal ones.

laura877 · Mar 31, 2012

I put a db yoker in the bator and it goes into lockdown on Monday. I have a problem though. Only one yolk was fertilized. So I have one chick growing and a yoke just in there floating around. Not sure what to do when its time to hatch as I don't see how the chick can pip that big shell and push itself out without breaking the other yolk and maybe drowning in it.

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