If there are two yolks in an egg..?
By webguru
@webguru (176)
India
May 12, 2007 1:46am CST
I have found some eggs having two yolks.
If there are two yolks in a chicken egg,do two chicks get hatched?
6 responses
@suganrekh (264)
• India
10 Apr 08
I have never seen such a thing till now are you serious about it?
@breepeace (3014)
• Canada
10 Jul 07
In a sat-on-and-hatched-by-mum egg, the chicken has to rotate around, so it gets its head up to where the air cell is. Then, under normal circumstances, the baby chicken will peck its way out.
But if there are two chickens inside, they will almost invariably fight each other. Neither of them will be able to get to the air cell, so they both die.
However, there have been a few very rare cases where the egg has been very carefully opened at exactly the right time (in a kind of mini-Caesarian), and two chickens have survived from a double-yolked egg.
It's rare, but it happens.
@ChampagneGiggles (699)
• United States
10 Jul 07
Normally only one is fertilized so only one would be hatched. But if both are fertilized, one would be stronger and the weaker would die and be reabsorbed.