Conjoined twin birds!! Fixed the link! Not a Joke!!

[okiemommy]

Everytime I see your pic, I want some ducks.....oh wait. That's another thread.

I know, Sad that they died. They seemed to have lived quite a while though. Long enough to get that big and feather out.

 

[onthespot]

I have the opposite kind of twin anomaly bird. It is a Fischer lovebird, a chimera, a blend of two birds, a double yolker that scrambled and became one bird, originally a blue variety, and the other was a dilute green.

 

[Blisschick]

I know it seems kind of morbid, but I kept a chick that was born with 1 head, 4 wings, 4 legs, and 2 vents. I have it in a jar of alcohol. I know the egg was not a double yolk egg, simply because it was normal sized and developed completely. The chick was in fact alive when I took it from the shell, but died immediately afterward because it was also anacephalic (lacking the top of the head and brain). I thought it was dead because it didn't pip, and all I could see when candling was a big dark mass. The poor chick took up nearly the entire inside of the egg. There was no way it could have piped.

I don't get how it's different. Not arguing just don't get it. Isn't a double yolk a double yolk? It's still in one eggshell right?

There would be only one yolk, but the fertilized zygote would split, as in humans.​

 

[okiemommy]

that is morbid blisschick, but interesting!!


Ahhh I get it now...

 

[Blisschick]

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I don't mean to sound condenscending here, but there is no way two yolks can scramble and still produce a bird. Once the yolk breaks inside an egg, the egg won't develop because the membranes have been damaged and destroyed. A chimera is formed when the two fertilized eggs fuse together to form a single individual. What happened is that there was a single yolk with two zygotes that joined and resulted in your beautiful mottled bird.

 

[Wildsky]

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THey're MUCH bigger now!

Everytime I see your's well I wanna steal it cause it makes me chuckle.

 

[okiemommy]

Everytime I see your's well I wanna steal it cause it makes me chuckle.

or hijack it? Har har!

 

[spook]

nature is always going to win out. They could not survive for themselves, be it flying, catching bugs etc, evolution, it has a way of keeping the genetics strong enough to survive.
Awsome article and thank you for sharing!

 

[okiemommy]

You're welcome!

 

[conny63malies]

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they came from a regular egg. single yolker . Like in human conjoined twins the egg did not split completely in two. so the two embryos got stuck together. Did i mention that i love genetic abnormalities?