WEIRD clear balls in hatched egg...PICS

[autsie]

The ones my DH and BIL found in our chicken were a mass of small to a little bigger clear balls all together in a clump. I have no idea, but I would love an answer as well! We thought it was crazy!

 

[lebentier]

well, i got an answer back from msu, but it was no answer...

'Dr. Chris McDaniel, our reproduction - fertility expert took a look at the egg pic. and says that he has never seen this before. Possibly some type of cyst.

Danny L. Thornton
Extension Instructor
Poultry Science - M.S.U.'

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Strange....

 

[cmom]

The mystery continues...

 

[alabamachick]

Perhaps some sort of "twinning" that never finished? Are twin chicks in one egg even possible?

This is definitely weird. I also like the cyst idea, natures way of protecting chick from whatever could have been deposited in the shell with the yolk that shouldnt have been there?

 

[Matthew3590]

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Yes double yolkers are out there. When they hatch usually one lives the other dies. A lady on here helped her double yolkers out and they survived. I don't know if they are actual twins or more like fraternal twins.

 

[chickensbythesea]

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Yes double yolkers are out there. When they hatch usually one lives the other dies. A lady on here helped her double yolkers out and they survived. I don't know if they are actual twins or more like fraternal twins.

Fraternal twins are real twins too!
But they'd be fraternal, if they were identical then they'd probably be sharing a yolk, like human identicals often share placentas. Plus, each yolk develops it's own germinal disc (the big cell you can see on yolks, it's where the fetus will grow from) prior to fertilization. A yolk with 2 disks winding up in an egg with a yolk with one disc and it transplanting seems pretty unlikely too, so I guess they're probably always fraternal. If an egg did have two, the chicks probably wouldn't make it because they'd have no foods

 

[Matthew3590]

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Yes double yolkers are out there. When they hatch usually one lives the other dies. A lady on here helped her double yolkers out and they survived. I don't know if they are actual twins or more like fraternal twins.

Fraternal twins are real twins too!
But they'd be fraternal, if they were identical then they'd probably be sharing a yolk, like human identicals often share placentas. Plus, each yolk develops it's own germinal disc (the big cell you can see on yolks, it's where the fetus will grow from) prior to fertilization. A yolk with 2 disks winding up in an egg with a yolk with one disc and it transplanting seems pretty unlikely too, so I guess they're probably always fraternal. If an egg did have two, the chicks probably wouldn't make it because they'd have no foods

What if in early stage of development the yolk/original cell split in two and then had identical chickens, though they would probably not live cause they would be splitting the yolk 50/50

 

[mmaddie's mom]

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Well, that was a disapointment.

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

I keep following this thread waiting for and expert to answer.

The suspense/curiosity is killing me! "MEOW!"