Double Embryos!

[wyancrazy]

Wow, first time I've seen two embryos in the one egg. I am fully aware they probably will fail as there isn't enough room, but it's amazing to see while candling. I took a quick video of it.

If you want to see, I am gobsmacked and keep wanting to check it but I'm letting it alone to grow. Hope to see what happens.

 

[wyancrazy]

Very cool! Will be watching to see what happens. There is a possibility it's not twins though, just two parts of the same embryo. Especially because the part on the right isn't as dark as the other one, and doesn't have a clearly identifiable dark black "dot" (the eye). I've had this happen before - the chick is stretched out in the egg and the head is on one side, and the feet on the other, moving independently and looking like two separate things, but actually just two parts to one whole. Those have proceeded to develop and hatch as single chicks. Time will tell, but that's a possibility.

Alright you guessed 100% correctly! The chick must have been lying across the egg perhaps. Anyway an update is that the embryo(s) stopped moving and then in the morning when I checked, all the veins had shrunken in and there was a 'dead' egg. I opened it to have a look and there was one single chick inside! So strange! Boy I was confused. So sad also to lose another potential chicken, but will try again with a better incubator. The good news is that 10 quail hatched so I moved my last egg into that incubator, which will hopefully hatch next Saturday. I took a couple photos of the chick but unsure if people want or need to see it, it's literally just a dead chick on a plate

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

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They are due to hatch in 8 days, so they are on day 13. I'm not holding my breath, but it's so cool to watch two dancing around in the egg! Another egg in the incubator shows a much larger embryo though, so they are delayed a bit. Probably due to being two in there, I guess?

That awesome!!! I hope they hatch!!!

 

[Ridgerunner]

I don't have a link but there are some videos on the internet about somebody hatching double yolked eggs. Usually it doesn't work at all, sometimes you will get one chick but even that is rare. In the video I'm thinking about they did get two chicks but it required a lot of hands on help. You might try an internet search just in case.

 

[wyancrazy]

Sorry it wasn't too exciting! The egg failed and there was only one chick in there, must have been feet and head I could see. I've been doing this a few years now and that egg REALLY looked weird like two chicks in there.

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Fallowing!!!! What day are they on?

 

[HLail]

Yes also curious what day number you’re on for incubation?

 

[wyancrazy]

Watching! That's really interesting.

How many eggs do you have that are going to go into lockdown?
& Good luck on your hatch

I started with 23 Silver Laced Wyandottes and 6 of my own Campine x Aracauna x Silkie and at day 6 I could pick out the unfertilised ones and a cracked one, then the incubator started heating like crazy and soaring up to 41 degrees at one point. So I am pulling out dead embryo eggs left right and center, so disappointed as the incubator was good before this. Amazingly all I am left with is 1 Wyandotte, which is this egg (and it also has a crack in it) and 1 of my own Campine x eggs. I have more eggs coming next weekend from my Mum's farm, and this next lot will go into my other incubator. Guess I'll be looking for another incubator!

 

[MysteryChicken]

Sorry it wasn't too exciting! The egg failed and there was only one chick in there, must have been feet and head I could see. I've been doing this a few years now and that egg REALLY looked weird like two chicks in there.

I've had weird ones too.

 

[cherrynberry]

Watching!