A friend called me over to help with a hatch that was not going well. It was day 24 and nothing so we decided to open an egg and see. The chick was alive, fully developed, but the egg sack was very large still and - here's the weird part- had what looked for all the world like dark hair lumps that had grown throughout it? The chick didn't live more than a moment and the rest of the eggs never hatched. There were lots of un-absorbed yolks so we figured her thermometer was off and the temp. had been too low throughout the incubation period. But that one yolk was very odd. I would have thought bacterial infection, except that it was the only one that looked like that and it really did look like hair clumps. Is it possible for more than one sperm to enter a chicken egg and fertilize two yolks? Any ideas?
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