Twins?

[<3<3 I <3 Chickens <3<3]

This year I am raising baby chicks (thank you Lance) and I have a question: can there be twin chickens? From a double egg? Will they both live????? I GOTTA KNOW!!!!!!!





Lance is my rooster (cockrell, if your picky)

 

[pdsavage]

There is a topic on here somewhere where a BYCer hatched a double yoker...

 

[<3<3 I <3 Chickens <3<3]

where is it?

 

[Chickenfarmer 1-2-b]

Try this:

 

[chickintexas]

Here is the play-by-play thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=104245

 

[Kittymomma]

The link is an amazing story, but it seldom turns out so well. Usually one or both chicks fail to make it. Twins from a double yolker are fraternal twins and really not any different then two eggs laid by the same hen and fertilized by the same roo. Like so many things in life I believe this falls under the "Just because you can doesn't mean you should" category.