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Ok... update...
The chicken with the stuck egg is fine...still no eggs I can find but she's ranging jumping flying squawking eating everything. Still alert bright eyed and bushy tailed. I don't know what is going on with her.
The university got back to me and yes said it surely did look like a case of identical twins in the mutant chicken but that It's so very very rare that I should never see it again as long as I keep chickens. That it might have happened from an egg being jostled too much during early development. But that it probably had nothing to do with my hen at all.
The other chickens what few hat actually hatched from that same batch of eggs were alright except one had a bulging eye and a tiny spot of brain showing through the top of its head. It hatched and darn near instantly died. A whole lot of the eggs out of this batch pipped internally and then died for seemingly no reason. 6 chicks did hatch and appear healthy and to be doing well
The chicken with the stuck egg is fine...still no eggs I can find but she's ranging jumping flying squawking eating everything. Still alert bright eyed and bushy tailed. I don't know what is going on with her.
The university got back to me and yes said it surely did look like a case of identical twins in the mutant chicken but that It's so very very rare that I should never see it again as long as I keep chickens. That it might have happened from an egg being jostled too much during early development. But that it probably had nothing to do with my hen at all.
The other chickens what few hat actually hatched from that same batch of eggs were alright except one had a bulging eye and a tiny spot of brain showing through the top of its head. It hatched and darn near instantly died. A whole lot of the eggs out of this batch pipped internally and then died for seemingly no reason. 6 chicks did hatch and appear healthy and to be doing well
