Twins?`

Has any of you ever had twins hatch out? I have a hen that ever time
she has laid she has a double yolk egg. This time it had babies that
started the hatch but neither hatched much more than 1/2 ".
I have read reports that there have been instances of twins hatching.
I think Wendell Levi has something on it. This is the first time that
the egg was viable. Every other one has been infertile. Now one
of her daughters is falling into the same pattern of eggs. She layed
and hatched two babies at the start of breeding but has now layed
two infertile double yolk eggs, one each in the last two nest.
If her other prodigy have this trait I will have to destroy her. That
really isn't something I want to propagate in my program. I
will hate to do that as she has raised good diving Voutes.
tonyf

tonyf wrote:
> Has any of you ever had twins hatch out? I have a hen that ever time
> she has laid she has a double yolk egg. This time it had babies that
> started the hatch but neither hatched much more than 1/2 ".
> I have read reports that there have been instances of twins hatching.
> I think Wendell Levi has something on it. This is the first time that
> the egg was viable. Every other one has been infertile. Now one
> of her daughters is falling into the same pattern of eggs. She layed
> and hatched two babies at the start of breeding but has now layed
> two infertile double yolk eggs, one each in the last two nest.
> If her other prodigy have this trait I will have to destroy her. That
> really isn't something I want to propagate in my program. I
> will hate to do that as she has raised good diving Voutes.
> tonyf

I never bother to check on clear eggs if there's one yolk or two so I
guess it's possible that some of my birds may be producing two yolk eggs
without me even knowing about it.

That sure is an interesting notion--two pigeons hatching from one egg.
I have to believe that's a pretty rare occurrence.

Levi may have had it happen because they had so many birds at that
Palmetto Pigeon Plant that he helped to run. I mean, if you figure the
probability is 1 in 1,000,000 then you've got a lot better chance of
running across it sooner when you've got more birds breeding.

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Onorio