Solve This Mystery: 8 Hens = 14 Eggs in < 12 hrs

[Skyle]

Maybe a Silkie snuck in there
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This scared me! I wasn't expecting that. I'd get some as coop-guardians though

 

[Hopelives07]

BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Nice!!
I wasn't brave enough to break open the giant weird egg. I gave it to a friend who wanted it and recommended she "boil it for well over 5 minutes and have a big, sharp knife handy when you crack it open".
Here's a pic of the weird one. It weighed 3.2 oz. no way it came out of my hens. Its way bigger than any double yolker they've laid and its UGLY - the top is all bumps and dimples, it has ridges, wrinkles and you can't rly see, but it looks like it has veins running through it.
(Now boarding the Nope Train to HellNoVille...)

That is quite odd. I wouldn't be eating that one.

 

[WhySayWhat]

BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Nice!!
I wasn't brave enough to break open the giant weird egg. I gave it to a friend who wanted it and recommended she "boil it for well over 5 minutes and have a big, sharp knife handy when you crack it open".
Here's a pic of the weird one. It weighed 3.2 oz. no way it came out of my hens. Its way bigger than any double yolker they've laid and its UGLY - the top is all bumps and dimples, it has ridges, wrinkles and you can't rly see, but it looks like it has veins running through it.
(Now boarding the Nope Train to HellNoVille...)

My pullets that are laying (4 of them) lay a double sized egg every couple of weeks. They've all been double yolkers, but otherwise perfectly normal.

 

[EEforMe]

My question is what would happen if a double yolker hatched? Chicken twins? Or infertile?

 

[topochico225]

My question is what would happen if a double yolker hatched? Chicken twins? Or infertile?

A lot of the time, two embryos will develop, and the stronger embryo absorbs the weaker one or the weaker embryo dies and the stronger embryo develops. Double yolkers don't usually hatch.

 

[PeepOverlord]

My question is what would happen if a double yolker hatched? Chicken twins? Or infertile?

@nuthatched says we get Gremlin Twins

 

[nuthatched]

@nuthatched says we get Gremlin Twins

You can market them! People would go nuts!

 

[EEforMe]

@nuthatched says we get Gremlin Twins

 

[Justicedog]

Was this mystery ever solved?

 

[Beer can]

My pullets that are laying (4 of them) lay a double sized egg every couple of weeks. They've all been double yolkers, but otherwise perfectly normal.

Yrs ago I had a few brown leghorns only leghorns I've ever had. They as pullets laid many over 100 gram double yolkers, duck size eggs. I was worried they were going to blow themselves out. Was told it takes some time for a pullet to get their egg factory working right. They were right after a few months the birds started laying normal big eggs.