If there are two yolks in an egg..?

@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?
@brajesht (12)
11 Jul 07
no way man.....that's not possible...yolk is just food for the embryo which appears as the white fluid....
@jal1948 (1359)
• India
12 May 07
maybe who knows this could be something like having twin babies so is there a way of knowing for sure,
@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.
• 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.
@wilynn (751)
• Singapore
10 Jul 07
Hey! Wouldn't that make it twins? Its quite cute to find an egg having 2 yolks. So far, I have been eating so many eggs and I never see such things. You're lucky!