What would happen IF...?

[catdaddy66]

I just want to pose a hypothetical question as I am not an incubator/hatcher. Would an egg with multiple yolks ever be successfully fertilized and hatched? The reason I ask is that in the egglaying forum a woman had an extremely large egg with minimum 2 yolks (possibly 4?!). I just started wondering... what IF?

What is the prevailing wisdom on this? Thanks, BYC'ers!!

 

[BooBear]

I saw a video on Youtube of a lady helping twins hatch from a double yoker egg. It was really cool to watch and both chicks survived.

 

[sonjab314]

Yes it is possible but very unlikely. There are lots of past threads on here asking the same question. Check out this video. If I'm not mistaken it is a fellow BYCer.

 

[catdaddy66]

Wow! That was incredible! I am exhausted just watching her for 10 minutes.