Random question... double yolkers...

[TwinMommy2009]

I was just browsing around here and found a pic of 4 double yolkers in a frying pan. It got me thinking...can someone tell me what would happen if these eggs were fertile and incubated/hatched? Would one dominate the other and obviously the small one would die in shell? Has anyone successfully hatched a double yolker?

 

[jeremy]

They can be successfully hatched, there's threads about it here on the forum. Even a video! The result is twin chicks! Sorta.

Not both chicks always make it though.

 

[TwinMommy2009]

Cool, thanks for the reply!!! I think I'll do a little searching!

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[Iowa Roo Mom]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=21464&p=1

 

[TwinMommy2009]

Thanks, i went through most of that thread just now...up to the point where the OP said it was one large chick and a smaller one... So i guess it experienced some sort of twin on twin transfusion (ttts, in human twins). Very very sad, wish the chicks had made it!!!


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