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  1. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    Don't put words in my mouth. I meant that if you want pleasure with your chickens IMO nothing is more pleasurable than watching a momma hen with chicks. Someone posted a vid of a double yolker hatching. They had to help the chicks out. On youtube people asked how the chicks were but the...
  2. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    "A broody hen is the absolute best way to hatch chicks for you and your flock. She will do all the work, she’ll have a better hatch rate than you ever will, and, best of all, no stinky brooders to clean up. It can be nerve wrecking when you let a broody hatch for you the first time, especially...
  3. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    I doubt you can hear this, but if every egg has a right to be fertilized no woman should use birth control and she should attempt to have every baby she possibly can in her years of fertility. She should shoot for having 1 a year starting right after her first ovulation. Surely you don't mean...
  4. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    What is the argument for? All I have seen so far is that people "want to see what happens". The argument against has to do with two chicks confined to a shell that is larger but not double size so they develop all scrunched together. They have to get air through the shell but it is not double...
  5. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    So after your chicks hatch do you put your baby chicks on lower than usual rations, less air and confined space just for the novelty of what happens. There is no need to set a double yolker. People express that they are doing it just to "see what happens" yet of course they would not deprive...
  6. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    I beg to differ, our hatches under a broody hen have higher hatch rates than incubators are reported to have. Further we have less of the problems that chicks hatched in incubators have as the hen knows how to do it exactly right, not too hot, not too cold, perfect humidity. And they aren't...
  7. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    So does that mean we have to incubate every fertile egg that our chickens lay? So by your standards we have to either have to have no roosters with our hens or if we have roosters with our hens we must hatch out every single fertile egg, eating none, and feeding ever huger flocks of chickens...
  8. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    Its unethical because it serves no useful purpose but puts both chicks at risk. It serves no useful purpose because the chicks will be siblings in one shell and you can just as easily get siblings in two shells where they have more room, more food, more air and a much better chance of...
  9. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    Good points
  10. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    You could have had double yolks and one of the chicks died early on and was absorbed by the other. Please don't try to set double yolk eggs. It gives the two chicks less than optimal start in life and most don't hatch. Even though the egg is bigger it isn't double in size so the space...
  11. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    There are two ways to have twins. In humans two eggs are fertilized and you get fraternal twins which are just siblings sharing the same womb. In the case of identical twins you have one egg fertilized by one sperm that at some early point separates into two fetus and thus the kids have...
  12. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    http://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/omphalitis/overview-of-omphalitis-in-poultry "Omphalitis is a condition characterized by infected yolk sacs, often accompanied by unhealed navels in young fowl. It is infectious but noncontagious " So an unhealed navel can be caused by the Omphalitis...
  13. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    Since all eggs in an incubator or under a mother hen hatch at the same time, any that have the same mother and father are siblings or could be called fraternal twins. If a hen has access to two roosters or more the chicks in the double yolker might not even have the same father (I guess that...
  14. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    This non closing of the bellies is called omphalitis or mushy chick disease https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/mushy-chick-disease-yolk-sack-infection-omphalitis.64686/ The sub optimal condition of setting a double yolk egg no doubt contributed to the chicks having this condition. For...
  15. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    That is because they are siblings, not twins. It is just that the body of the hen made a mistake and enclosed two yolks in one shell. They are just siblings with one shell creating sub optimal conditions for a hatch.
  16. Kat C

    Any luck with double yolkers/twins?

    If the egg with the double yolk is not double the volume each chick will have less food to grow on. If the egg is not double the surface area each chick will have less oxygen. If you wouldn't deprive a live chick of food, why would you set an egg where for 21 days each chick has less than...
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