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OMG! I just had one of these, with 2 separate yolks. It was so weird. Just when I thought I'd gotten the yolk out, I found another one. Does that mean it would have been twins?
I've never seen it before either but I knew it could happen. And in answer to your question, yes, it would have been little twin chickies. But you ate them.
I learned in Trivial Pursuit that the yolk is actually the food for the baby chicken - the white is what turns into the chicken. I guess it makes sense since the yolk has so many more calories than the white. That makes a double-yolk egg weird though! Maybe you'd end up with a fat chicken.
Natalie, they only turn into chickens if they're fertilized. Most eggs are not fertilized so they will never turn into chickens.
You see, when a rooster and a hen are really in love...
As to how they turn into chickens, well, assuming the rooster fertilizes the egg, the part of the egg that will become the chicken starts to grow. Eventually it has eaten up all the food inside the egg and it fills up the whole egg. Then it decides to hatch and breaks out. The end.
At brownie camp the leaders were making breakfast one morning and cracked an egg that had a half-formed chick in it. Yet another reason why birds freak me out.
Sorry but Dr. Rowan has to butt in. Its not the white that is the chix but rather the little "fuzzy" white blob attached to the yolk. I always pull it out when I make scrambled eggs because it freaks me out.
Oh yeah your right, its not the yolk that is the chick. I've cracked open eggs before & had that little red speck in the white part. I always think ACK! there's a chicken in my egg. I won't use those ones. gross! I don't like eggs anyway so seeing white blobs & red specs certainly do not help.