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raccoon

(31,119 posts) Mon Jan 2, 2012, 02:10 PM Jan 2012

Do double-yolked eggs ever hatch?

Could it produce viable chickens?

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Do double-yolked eggs ever hatch? (Original Post) raccoon Jan 2012 OP

Very rarely. Denninmi Jan 2012 #1

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)

1. Very rarely.

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Mon Jan 2, 2012, 02:32 PM

Jan 2012

There are a few people on some of the online poultry forums who get one of the chicks to hatch, but most double yolk eggs die at early stages of incubation, and the few that go longer generally die towards the end of the incubation period, because the lower chick can't reach the air cell to internally pip, so it dies and then begins to decompose, and that produces bacterial toxins that kill the other chick.

Honestly, unless you want to try it for the novelty of it, you're better off just eating the double yolkers and incubating normal eggs.

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