Double Yoker

[Marie2020]

if they're fertilized will they hatch two chicks? and i wonder if they'd be BFF?

I've always wondered that

 

[so lucky]

A little off topic, but...do you find that your chickens hang out together depending on color? I have three blackish chickens that hang out together, not all the same variety, two Easter eggers that hang out together, one welsummer that is a loner, and a white EE that hangs out with everyone. In past flocks, the girls definitely hung out with like varieties. How do they know? They were all purchased as day olds. There are no mirrors. ?.

 

[baymule]

There is truth in the old saying, “Birds of a feather, flock together.”

 

[Marie2020]

A little off topic, but...do you find that your chickens hang out together depending on color? I have three blackish chickens that hang out together, not all the same variety, two Easter eggers that hang out together, one welsummer that is a loner, and a white EE that hangs out with everyone. In past flocks, the girls definitely hung out with like varieties. How do they know? They were all purchased as day olds. There are no mirrors. ?.

My ladies are all different colours, if I get anymore they will be a mix to. No racists will exist in my back garden

 

[ducks4you]

@Ridgerunner ,, I have seen those eggs with a membrane shell before.
Btw, Neighbor/friend a block over got chickens again. HIS coop and run are chicken wire.
Time to buy some birds, again.

 

[flowerbug]

it makes sense in various regards as if they are all about the same color and hanging out together it makes it harder for a predator to single out any one of them. at least that is my guess...

 

[Ridgerunner]

From what I've seen chickens raised together tend to hang together even after they are fully grown. Depending on where you get them, either from a hatchery or hatching them from your flock, chickens of a color just might be raised together. So that might be a component.

I have seen chickens form cliques based on personality. Some tend to be more cautious and hang close to the rooster or the coop. Other hens are more adventurous and tend to roam. I think this explains some of the cliques I've seen. Some of those cliques were of different colors and patterns.

Different breeds tend to have certain traits when it comes to personalities. While you can have different colors of the same breed we usually don;t do that. I'd kind of expect certain breeds to hang together because of shared traits. Leghorns tend to be skittish, Orpington not so much.

Chickens can see color. This may be a component too.

 

[baymule]

I had a black sex link that expressed the red on her breast like a robin. So I named her Robin. Robin had tons of personality and ruled the roost until her death at 7 years old. Breeds and colors came and went, but she chose who she hung out with.

 

[valley ranch]

If you have a bator Put them in and try, you see in about 21 days.