Twin Chicks Double yolk

[sol2go]

just perfect!
Are they feathering in at different rates?
Glad to know you are having lovely weather.
I have been slipping and sliding around in my mud boots (not very gracefully either).

 

[MrsMommaJones]

One appears to be a RIR and the other looks like our Easter rooster. Both hav pea combs as for as I can see.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

One appears to be a RIR and the other looks like our Easter rooster. Both hav pea combs as for as I can see.

Wow how does that happen with a double yoke hatch. Does that means the embryos were fertilized by 2 different roos?

 

[Peep-Chicken]

I get several double (even one or two triples) from my one hen. But the rooster isn't fertilizing my hens.

Glad to see yours hatched

 

[MrsMommaJones]

I don't think it was 2 different roos but the eggs can be fertile up to 3 weeks after they do the deed duo it may be possible

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I don't think it was 2 different roos but the eggs can be fertile up to 3 weeks after they do the deed duo it may be possible

That's amazing, please keep me posted on their progression. I'm really interested in seeing pictures as they grow older

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

That's incredible!

 

[sol2go]

I don't think it was 2 different roos but the eggs can be fertile up to 3 weeks after they do the deed duo it may be possible

I was counting on that when one of my roosters passed away recently and I collected eggs from 2 hens the next week…not one of them was fertile. We have had stormy weather and everyone was molting and it's the shortest days...

I also set some eggs from another breeding pen, 2 different hens and rooster. It was a small sample, but I dated the eggs before I set them. I candled them the first week, and one hen had a fertile egg every other day?

 

[MrsMommaJones]

Are you sure all of those eggs were hers?

 

[sol2go]

Are you sure all of those eggs were hers?

yes she was my only Cream Legbar hen with the CL rooster, the rest were Welsummers and an olive egger (blue vs brown and olive).
I guess I should add their portable coop on wheels was away from the main flock.