CAN YOU hatch a double yolk web sucessfully? Twins? ♥️

[BantyChooks]

Well, here is an egg with a crack in it, most would say don't try and incubate this, but here it is, with nail polish on it it is on day 6.View attachment 1232863It is in it's own incubator, it was a shipped egg that was fine, then it got dented when placed in the dividers in a diff incubator. the egg is a rare pavlovaskaya egg and after WW2 there were only 2 of these kind of birds in Russia. So I am not, not going to try and hatch.

I incubate cracked eggs, and have had success... different set of risks and possible issues than a double yolker... with the cracked ones they're just dead if something goes wrong, not malformed and alive.

 

[Welshies]

I incubate cracked eggs, and have had success... different set of risks and possible issues than a double yolker... with the cracked ones they're just dead if something goes wrong, not malformed and alive.

Yeah... agreed. I did some research on this and wow! Fascinating.
But really. Twins seem so romantic, don't they, OP? But in reality look at the outcomes. Not romantic. In my opinion not very ethical either.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I intentionally avoid setting obnoxiously jumbo eggs for a reason.
I have enough special needs livestock already. Why encourage more burden.

 

[Welshies]

I intentionally avoid setting obnoxiously jumbo eggs for a reason.
I have enough special needs livestock already. Why encourage more burden.

We always eat those double yolkers... it makes my day seeing the kids go "ooh" and "ahh".

 

[Lazy Farmer]

But really. Twins seem so romantic, don't they,

Then raise Goats!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

We always eat those double yolkers... it makes my day seeing the kids go "ooh" and "ahh".

Ever see a triple? Me twice.. I the suspense cracking open the freaky jumbos

 

[Welshies]

Ever see a triple? Me twice.. I the suspense cracking open the freaky jumbos

Not yet! That would be cool.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

What if there were double yoko onos?
Whould the Beatles break up much sooner?

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Boobos in the develpment of double yoke eggs will almost always result in either dead or deformen chicks. Furthermore things like this are highly in-heritable so the only good that you accomplish is to breed a strain of chicken that can only produce chicks that can live in a jar of formaldehyde.

Not only should double yolkers not be set but any hens that lay such eggs should be sumarely culled for the overall health of the flock.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

What if there were double yoko onos? Whould the Beatles break up much sooner?

No, the Beatles would not break up faster or sooner but instead of one, there would be 3 Beatles murdered in cold blood.