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Can chickens have twins in one egg?

Updated: 10/7/2023
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No. Not naturally. While double triple and quad yolks can come out of an egg, they are not viable when brooded naturally by a hen. The interior of an egg has limited resources for an embryo to develop as it forms and while some development will and often does take place the chicks inside seldom mature enough to hatch.

Yes it can happen but is very rare and takes much work with human intervention.

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Sort of. They don't have many of the (external) parts that a mammal does, but the functions of sex are the same.

Mammals have either 2 (males) or 3 (females) orifices for excretion, birds have one.

And a bird erection is kind of a tiny eversion of the cloaca, but it succeeds in getting sperm into the hen's body.

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Yea, once i had 5 eggs and they all had two yolks in them(twins) cool, huh, hens can have twins!

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