I have laying hens and one of the hens lays double yoked eggs on a regular basis. My question would the egg develop if it were incubated? Also if the egg did hatch with two chicks would they be twins?
I grew up on a turkey breeding farm. Our doubled yoked eggs could not be sold to a hachery for incubation. We ussually just ate them or threw them away with the other substandard eggs.
Yes they would be considered sub standard. I once had a banty rooster that was breeding with pheasant hens. People told me it would never happen or work, about 10% hatched but I had cheasants.
I brought eggs into work for a guy to try. He came to work on Monday and wanted to give the eggs back because the yolks were so bright and the eggs were thick figured there was something wrong with them.
Those electric egg cookers work great too. I just made up a bunch of deviled eggs for a funeral luncheon. The egg cooker takes the thinking out of boiling eggs and does them perfectly. Double yoked eggs sometimes do hatch and produce small chicks. Often they die before hatching. Of course, if you don't have rooster they'll never develop at all.
I always have a rooster around, wouldn't be a place in the country without a rooster. My chickens are free ranging (pretty much means they go crap up the barn) So I need a rooster to be the fall guy if a fox gets after them.
I had a couple of roosters but then my puppy decided she didn't like them and ate their heads off. She's a good, smart dog otherwise but the first one I've had that can't be trusted around the chickens. I'll get a new batch of birds this spring.
Same here but instead of bringing them back his wife threw them out. We haven't had birds in two years and while I miss the eggs I don't miss them.
Yoked? does that mean they are bound together with one of these? :D Double yolkers are common among young hens...as they get older, the yolks go singular except for the biggest eggs. I have had triple yolkers. They could develope and they would be twins....
