If these eggs were fertilized, would these eggs result in twin chicks being hatched, or would they become unviable due to lack of whites to provide necessary nutrients?
in the next few decades, many human twins will come out mutated and deformed, as climate change means less nutrients for everyone. Twins would then fight in the womb, sucking at each other's vital juices. Hence, Kuato in Mars.
Do you ever wonder if you're two people? I did the same, and I used to really wonder if I was a chimera, physically or mentally. Or maybe just missing my other half
I think this really happened with these triplets that went to a daycare I once worked at.. one of the boys was beautiful and heathy looking, tan with dark hair, and the other two (one boy and one girl) looked identical.. pale skin, skinny long heads like they were squished…. That’s what it looked like to me, but I also have no idea what I’m talking about. Lol. The one boy was like double the size of the other two though..
If you're fraternal, I do not see how her umbilical cord got wrapped around your neck. Fraternal twins each get their own gestational sack so can't get tangled in each other's cords. It's why they're the safer type of twins.
This is wild. I am also a fraternal twin born (c section) with a cord around my neck as well. We werent premature though and we both were average size.
Yo same!!!! I told my biology teacher in highschool that I was conceived five weeks after my brother, and she straight up told me I must be confused or my mom lied to me. I'm a girl and I have a fraternal twin brother. I was like 5.5 pounds and my brother was nearly 8 pounds! It's super super super rare, but it absolutely happens occasionally.
My twins were conceived months apart! One was IVF, natural cycle, and I got knocked up naturally at the same time. They're just siblings born on the same day :)
You …… you do know the sacks rupture (usually) prior to the baby(s) exiting the womb??? Some up to 48 hours before intervention?? Orrrr nahhh we gonna forget that part?????
At least you survived. I had a twin, but I stole it's nutrients. Yet, I was still not satisfied, I needed MORE nutrients, MORE power! So, with nothing left to steal, and no room for two, I ate my twin to absorb their essence.
My mom had twins for a awhile, then one check up it was just me lol. I guess it's kinda common.
I believe you're joking, but just in case, he's my take. So the egg has a finite resource of nutrients for the chick to grow whereas a human is feed nutrition through an umbilical cord that effectively is limitless
So, yes, it is possible that if they were fertilized that you would have a "twin," situation. But, as you mentioned, there is only enough nutrients and room for a single chick to hatch. Eggs have to contain literally everything the chick needs to grow for around 21 days. Only gases get in and out. Oh, and they can stay in stasis for up to a week after being laid. This is so the hen can lay a clutch and then when she starts sitting on them, they are triggered to start developing. This way they hatch around the same time.
Now, here is the trippy thing.
Conjoined twins DO happen. I am in a bunch of chicken groups (I have a small flock of my own,) and every year or so someone has a conjoined chick hatch. They are never viable though.
Isn't this almost entirely wrong? I mean, yes, both the yolk and the albumin contain "food" for the developing fetus, but the yolk is the part that actually turns into a baby bird, right?
Why is this upvoted 30 times with no one saying anything?
Edit: even if the egg cell is just inside the yolk instead of being the yolk, they're still completely wrong because an egg with two yolks would have an egg cell inside of both of them, right? Why are people acting like that person was correct when they gave everyone the wrong idea?
suggests it's completely true. The "chick" is the tiny blob attached to the yolk and it grows and the yolk recedes. Pretty much every mention I casually looked at places the yolk's purpose as food for the developing embryo and the embryo comes from something external to the yolk.
no. the part that turns into a baby bird is the single white cell is the middle of the yolk. it's 'eats' the yellow yolk while it's growing in the egg.
No the yolk is the placenta, so maternal tissue used to feed the embryo. The albumin is the tissue that actually turns into an embryo. Placentas are not embryos. Tho obviously a yolk is not exactly the same as a placenta as that's only a mammal thing
No, the yolk is not living, nor does it ever become living. That's like asking if the human placenta turns into a baby.
Eggs in grocery stores have yolks, but they're not fertilized. It is not living, whether you eat it or not.
The yolk is not living cell material like protoplasm, but largely passive material, that is to say deutoplasm.
The yolk mass, together with the ovum proper (after fertilization, the embryo) are enclosed by the vitelline membrane, whose structure is different from a cell membrane.[2][3] The yolk is mostly extracellular to the oolemma, being not accumulated inside the cytoplasm of the egg cell (as occurs in frogs),[4] contrary to the claim that the avian ovum (in strict sense) and its yolk are a single giant cell.[5][6]
Right, that's what I meant by saying it's non-living
And I was saying the person I responded to was right only in that food is building material for living bodies. So, yes it "turns into" the chick once it's eaten, digested, and used. AKA "food"
Sometimes, there's a lot of variables. One or both could fail in incubation, hatching involves a chick turning round cracking the egg in a circle, this can be tricky with two. Viable twins are much more common in reptiles who have a different hatching system so presumably many fail there, it's possible though.
It’s the yolk that give the nutrients, not the white. Theoretically could survive but unlikely. Double yolkers usually come from younger hens that just started laying, hatchability and livability tends to be lower in these younger hens in general.
I’m thinking it would be a twin situation. One baby might steal more or they would both be tiny. Although I will say the few times this has happened to me it’s always been a bigger egg so that could help the lil twins survive better
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u/Long_Educational Dec 18 '22
If these eggs were fertilized, would these eggs result in twin chicks being hatched, or would they become unviable due to lack of whites to provide necessary nutrients?