Question about double yokes

[Cacciatore]

Every once in awhile I get a enormous egg from one of my EEs.

This is a photo of one next to a normal large egg from a Buff Orp.

This is why it's so big… a double yoke.

My question may seem a bit lame but I just didn't know. Do double yoke eggs that are hatched produce two chicks… twins?

 

[magicpigeon]

They will produce two chicks, however the mortality is incredibly high and the chicks are small and weak if they do...

 

[Cacciatore]

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Thanks. It sounds like it is not a good idea to let them hatch.

 

[magicpigeon]

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Thanks. It sounds like it is not a good idea to let them hatch.

I agree. The 2nd chick has to pip from the wrong end; and can sometimes harm the 1st in doing so. I have never incubated one before but there is a thread somewhere in the Incubating and Hatching eggs forum that might help you

 

[Judy]

People try it now and then, and once in a while they even manage to get two live chicks by helping them out, but this is a rare outcome. I would never try to incubate a double yolk. I would feel like I was raising something to die before it ever had a life.

 

[Cacciatore]

Well I don't want to do it and never did, I just wondered while I was eating breakfast about the double yoke. From what I've learned here it seems to me to be a bit irresponsible to even try.