DOUble Yoker Question*

[muscovy94]

Hey all i have a question. In double yokers, can just one yoke be fertile and the other one not or are both yokes always fertile?

 

[sonew123]

I get double yolkers all the time from my RIR hen. I have 1 for the first time in my first hatch!!! Ive eaten so many of her double yolkers and MANY times both yolks were fertile--Im hoping the one in the bator is!!

 

[katrinag]

I have a marans that lays doubles all the time and sometimes they are infertitle, or just one is. I do have one in the bator now that both yolks are fertitle.

They are very hard to hatched and lives. I have tried gobs of times and still have nothing yet.

 

[muscovy94]

I wish I was getting double yokers!!! I have another question. I hatched my silkies in the middle of last year and they haven't layed yet, but i see the rooster doing his thing with them so I know they would be fertile, but when my silkies do start to lay, will some of them be doubles? Because I think i heard somewhere that most pullets will lay double yokers??

 

[sonew123]

oh you stumped me there-be patient and the experts on this will jmp in

 

[katrinag]

Quote:
A lot of times pullet give you doubles b/c they are getting the kinks out of the plumbing.
I have yet to get a double yolker from a silkie hen.
If she is letting the roo mate with her that is a sign that she is close to egg laying however it could be a matter of days or weeks still.
IME silkies take longer to lay then other breeds.

 

[sonew123]

good to know--Im hatching silkies next month!

 

[RooptyDoo]

I put a barred rock egg in the incubator that I think may be a double yoker. I candled to see if I could tell but you can't hardly see the yoke. So I cant tell. I am hoping that it is!!!!!

 

[Chickenfeet]

I have silkies and I don't think I've ever seen a double yoker from them. Their eggs are alot smaller than a regular chicken egg.

 

[muscovy94]

well darn! so do bantams lay double yokers?