I just put a double yolker in the 'bator. Can I expect twins?
Does Double-yolker = Twins?
I've never heard of a double yolker hatching. I don't think there is enough room in the egg for two chicks to develop--but you never know!
Is there a particular breed that is prone to double yolks?
This was a recent posting on the guinea site I used to frequent, someone wanted to know if there was a breed that laid all double yokers. I know my marans who started laying around Sept, still have some doubles. I think it happens more with first time layers than older layers. A man on that site said you could do a c-section and both would make it, someone had done it with I think ducks. Personally I would not want to take the chance of killing both chicks, I just don't incubate doubles. http://www.guineafowl.com/board/index.php?action=view&id=148461&page=3
I'm good with a knife, sounds like maybe I will have to open up a chicken O.R.
LOL What would a chicken OBGYN be called?
Scared?
How about a "pecker checker" for the Roos?
LOL LOL You guys crack me up!!
when mine wer pulletsi got lots of double, even triple yolkers, esp since i was throwing them fresh clover cuttings from the roadsides. runs out it was alfalfa. i cut back on it when i realized it could have caused the triple yolker. i couldn't imagine having to push that out, poor girl. i freaked when i found it, thought it was an emu egg...
sorry, off the subject. i wouldn't incubate a double yolker, but it sounds like fun for you!
I'll give it a few days to see what develops - nothing ventured, nothing gained...
good point. did you candle & SEE the second yolk? what breed is it?
it dose work well but u have to closely monitor the space in the egg my neighbour dose lots of experiments lik this he says on day 21 give it a c section make a cut in the center and go around like a chicken would if it was hatching normaly and dont use a knife tweezers ould be fine
TF,
I believe it is a white giant F X Silver laced Wyandotte M but not sure. I didn't candle, but the guy who gave it to me said he has been getting one per day, and it looked like the others he had eaten, size-wise.
Lucky,
Your neighbor is saying that twins would develop in one of these eggs?
yep but you have to be careful with the space dont let em cook to long make sur they dont go over 21 days
I candled and saw two yolks, and spidery veins, so there is at least one growing. Will have to wait to see if two embryos develop.
You are just so willing to try everything, Maine!! I have read
that it is from a young hen, too. But then, the added yummies
from the diet I guess would do it. I love miss cathy and
my chicks love alfalfa. I bet 2 do start to develop, but I just
don't see much room for them in there. I would like to see how
things go.
may princess kathy's chicks grow up to be hens.
I would venture a guess that just like in humans, the twins would both be on the small side of average. Guess I'll have to paint the nursery green or yellow for now...Scott
hey, with just the right green you can cover a warm pink, i should know!
i suppose you have already thought of this, but if you candle with enough light to see the position of the umbilical cord in realtion to your outside markings on the egg, then go in from the opposite side [unless there are two cords?], you would have less chance of causing bleeding and other porblems, right?
just a thought.
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It has been 7 days, and if I'm not mistaken - I'm expecting twins!! It is hard to tell because the egg is darkish brown, but there are dark spots on opposite sides of the egg, and enough veining for two. Will keep updating...
yippee! what breed?
Heinz 57...LOL
Maybe white giant, ameraucana, SL wyandotte, or something else.
no, will they be identical? seems to me they could be VERY different...
Wouldn't that be funny, they make it and are two totally different chickens, wasn't that a movie with Arnold and Devito?? LOL
You people are killing me over here!!!
think you got that backwards scott... aren't you the mad scientist?
your killin us.... lol why cant we see in the shell photos?
chicken eggs hatch in 21 days, right?
it is not good to try to hatch double yolks, the second yolk hinders the chick from growing properly, the white is the part that becomes the chick, they only digest the yolk as their first source of energy right before they are hatched
TG4plants yes it takes 21 days for a chick to hatch, some people give them a couple of extra days and then toss the unhatched.
Sounds interesting! Best of luck! That would be soooo cool if they were surviving twins! It might make a world record!
hunterboy - I hear what you are saying. If it is one chick developing, there should be extra room because the egg is so large. If it is two growing in there, well it may be might tight quarters by day 21. Going to be really interesting seeing what happens. I candled again tonight and there is movement in there, so someone is growing.
Its funny but just last week one of my Sumatras layed a egg that was unusually large
Of course I put it in the incubator thinking I was gunna hatch a sumo-wrestler of a chicken
Yesterday ,when I candled the eggs of course it was infertile,who am I to think I was gunna hatch out a monster size sumatra...LOL
then I looked closer.....it was a double yoke...freaked me right out
I hadn't seen one of those in years
My neighbor (one of my only egg customers) is a true country boy born, raised and never left, he told me he still gets a kick out of getting a double yoker from my eggs so I make sure he get the biggest of big eggs so maybe he will smile in the morning!
Something I just realized. We haven't gotten one double yolker from the Australorps at all. No pullet eggs when they first started laying either. Hmmmmmm
Maybe they get right to business, no messing around? They may be frugal gals! I didn't get any pullet tiny eggs from anyone until this winter well after they started to lay I got a tiny tiny silkie egg and a very tiny marans about a month ago. I keep all unusual eggs on my kitchen window sill in egg holders cups etc.
I hope they are good layers I have one coming with the rest of my colorful yard mix! I cannot wait to see that beautiful black/green coloring.
I hate to burst you guys' egg, but the yolk is not what turns into the chick. If you will recall the yolk is what the chick absorbs as nutrients untill hatching. The number of chicks has nothing to do with the number of yolk sacs within the egg. I have had a hen set a double yolk egg without realizing it. All it did was leave a whole lot of yolk in the egg at hatching and left the chick potbellied for a few days, I wouldn't reccomend setting one of these. He looked a little miserable for about a week.
Lora, at our house, we don't call them pullet eggs, we call them hiccups. Sometimes they have tiny yolks in them and sometimes they have nothing in them but white. We have had both. In fact, I blew out and cleaned two of them and still have them.
welcome to DG! LOL, you aren't bursting any bubbles, most people here probably kno that. funny how some folks think the yolk IS the chick. I am most fascinated by the whole umbilical process inside the egg. Scott is a good candler, and i am sure he will know when/if two babies show up inside.
lucky charm stated above that his neighbor had success with this. I may have read wrong but it appears that at least in Australia it works - krikie! Oh well, only one way to know for certain is to try it. One is better than none.
I have heard of two chicks in one egg but the story I heard didn't end well and I haven't actually has "twins" personally. Don't see how it would work but stranger things have happened in this world. Good luck.