two chicks??

[bleu]

One of my hens lays a double yolker once a week, the rest are single. My hens run with the roosters so all the eggs are pretty much fertilzed and I noticed, when Iwas fixing eggs for breakfast, that both of the yolks were fertilzed. I wonder if two chicks can develop in one egg and live??

 

[silkiechicken]

They can develop, but will be unlikly to make it. Run out of space and nutrients pretty fast in one even jumbo egg. You can search and find a few threads about double yolk eggs and possible development.

 

[jnjross]

only one person here has hatched twins that lived

 

[silkiechicken]

And if that case is the one I am thinking of... it may have been "fake" too. I want to say speckled hen got close, but the chicks died.