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post #11 of 21
4/11/12 at 5:35pm
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i am new, so please forgive me for this question. i know it sounds ridiculous. if it were fertilized and had 2 yolks, could 2 chicks be hatched from that egg... my shift key is broken, so no caps or question marks tonight.

Yep! I was just actually browsing a thread the other day where a member put two double yolk eggs in an incubator, and one of them successfully hatched two chicks. Only one made it from the other egg. She took a video of the hatch and everything. It was pretty neat!
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post #12 of 21
4/11/12 at 5:46pm

If you were to hatch that egg the chick would come out full grown .    L.O.L.jumpy.gif

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post #13 of 21
4/11/12 at 6:07pm
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Extra Large is all I can think of, I've never seen anything labelled above that. lol.png What a massive egg! I bet that one has more than one yolk.



Hello Fierlin,

 

You made me curious so I decided to look up egg sizes on the Internet. The first table is for the USA and the second for Australia where I come from:

My chooks are all adopted so I'm not sure how old they are. We've had them for nearly a year now and when we first got them, they were already all laying.

 

Cheers,

Gold Coaster


I would think those categories would only apply to single-yolkers? I haven't got a clue. lol.png But it's pretty normal to get multiple yolks once in a while, I've heard stories of three yolks, although never gotten one of those myself.

P.S. Australia? I thought your username rang a bell. I've been in Adelaide for almost five years now. frow.gif
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post #14 of 21
4/11/12 at 6:14pm
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If you were to hatch that egg the chick would come out full grown .    L.O.L.jumpy.gif



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post #15 of 21
4/12/12 at 4:22am

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post #16 of 21
4/12/12 at 3:52pm
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Hello everyone,

 

I finally cracked open Rosie's whopper egg and lo and behold it only had one yolk. So it really was a monster of an egg and not a double yolker. I gave it to my chooks for a breakfast feast this morning with a couple of slices of bread. It gave a whole new meaning to eggs on toast - yum! big_smile.png

 

Cheers,
Gold Coaster

 

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post #17 of 21
4/12/12 at 3:54pm
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I would think those categories would only apply to single-yolkers? I haven't got a clue. lol.png But it's pretty normal to get multiple yolks once in a while, I've heard stories of three yolks, although never gotten one of those myself.
P.S. Australia? I thought your username rang a bell. I've been in Adelaide for almost five years now. frow.gif



Hello Fierlin,

 

Always nice to meet a fellow Aussie! Top of the day to you from the Sunshine State (QLD) to the Festival State (SA). frow.gif

 

Cheers,

Gold Coaster

"If I could do one thing with the world, I'd turn the entire human race into empaths. Make everybody feel everyone's pain. If we could all truly empathize with each other, there would be an immediate end to most human misery. Famines would stop as rich countries fall over themselves to send aid..." - L. J. Smith

 

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post #18 of 21
4/12/12 at 4:01pm

Wow! That is one awesome egg!

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post #19 of 21
4/12/12 at 8:15pm
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Wow! That is one awesome egg!


Hello GentlyLiving,

Thank you, it sure was a beauty! It's all been gobbled up now by four little D.gif D.gif D.gif D.gif

 

This morning Rosie laid her usual 68g egg, so everything is back to normal.

 

Cheers,

Gold Coaster

 

"If I could do one thing with the world, I'd turn the entire human race into empaths. Make everybody feel everyone's pain. If we could all truly empathize with each other, there would be an immediate end to most human misery. Famines would stop as rich countries fall over themselves to send aid..." - L. J. Smith

 

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post #20 of 21
4/12/12 at 8:27pm

Out of curiosity I looked up the world record for the largest chicken egg, it was a whopping 201 grams!

 

Although yours was not this large it was HUGE!!!!

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