Wow! Holy Blastoderm, Batman! Nine, Count 'em, 9!

[chickenlittle32]

I'd say hes fertile for sure!!!!

 

[redhen]

wow! I never even knew that that could happen... interesting!

 

[FrizzleDizzle]

any idea why there was so many blastodiscs in the first place? i didnt know there could be more than one.

 

[Dar]

I dont understand alot about the breeding part but if i am understanding correctly from your post... the hen creates the blastodisks, then when the rooster fertilizes them they become blastoderms

now what happens when you have more then one rooster and both roosters have fertilized an egg? would it just fail to develop? I dont think its possible for a chick to have 2 daddys..is it? (wow thats a Maury Povich show

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[OhMyItsAndyy]

Once the disk is fertalized, its fertalized... So no more than one daddy

 

[Mahonri]

So what happens to the excess genetic material?

 

[speckledhen]

This is a new one for me! I think the record for the most yolks in one egg is 9, but the most blastodiscs on one egg? No idea. If someone had incubated it, not positive how many embryos would have actually start, but I'd bet more than one or two of these. There's no way possible for it to hatch, but if only one embryo developed, I'd imagine the rest of the yolk would just be absorbed into the one chick, as normal.

 

[Kim_NC]

Wow, interesting!