Post from Facebook on TWINs hatching for single egg!

[electrycmonk]

Here is the link and I’ll also share a screenshot for those without FB-land access….

https://www.facebook.com/share/sqyLqkoyHX5muEjp/?mibextid=K35XfP

There is one reply that I kept in the screenshot saying it really isn’t that rare.






So, BYC folks…. I’m quite curious as to this topic. Maybe a poll is in order to document this seemingly rarity?

Thoughts?

 

[Debbie292d]

Here is the link and I’ll also share a screenshot for those without FB-land access….

https://www.facebook.com/share/sqyLqkoyHX5muEjp/?mibextid=K35XfP

There is one reply that I kept in the screenshot saying it really isn’t that rare.
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So, BYC folks…. I’m quite curious as to this topic. Maybe a poll is in order to document this seemingly rarity?

Thoughts?

I have heard of it happening, but the couple I've heard about didn't make it to hatch day. They died along the way. This is amazing!

 

[Nym]

How sweet. I hope they grow up without too many problems.

 

[WingItRanch]

I saw this recently and it was pretty interesting!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/2-chicks-one-egg-2-different-looks.1633336/#post-27959349

 

[User690263]

Aww
I hope that everything goes well with them!
I have never seen or heard of that happening before

 

[Susan Skylark]

The problem with twin birdlings is that egg doesn’t get any bigger, meaning both chicks have to be on the smaller end and often both die. Mammals have the advantage of an abdomen and uterus that can expand. Horses are an exception, while they can have twins over 90 percent abort one or both. I once saw a mare with identical buck skin appaloosas with the cutest little blankets but only one was up and around, the other had suffocated with the membranes still over it’s head before the mare could get to him, heartbreaking! I wonder if larger eggs have a higher success rate at twinning? I can’t image twin quail, they are dinky as singletons!