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That’s eggstraordinary!
7:50am Thursday 8th May 2008
IT was an eggstraordinary effort for one Hampshire hen. At 3.38 inches in length and weighing seven ounces it's an egg that would bring tears to a chicken's eyes.
The giant egg was laid by a hen at the Little Acre farm in Sway where Dean Sambers - pictured right - looks after more than 50 chickens.
Dean, 16, a pupil at Priestlands School, Lymington, said: "We have no idea why it's so big. We are going to keep it and possibly blow the yolke out because it's so unusual. We've never seen anything like it."
The average sized chicken egg weighs approximately two ounces and is around 2.75 inches from top to bottom.
Bryan Paff, 50, chicken expert and owner of Longdown Activity Farm in the New Forest said: "It's probably a double-yolker which is laid about once a year by hens at the end of their cycle."
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Emma, Winchester says...
9:57am Thu 8 May 08
Spelling pedant, says...
10:07am Thu 8 May 08
mangobean, Eastleigh says...
10:13am Thu 8 May 08
That would have been one big mother clucker!
Hen-Ry, says...
10:28am Thu 8 May 08
Robert McKimson, says...
1:37pm Thu 8 May 08
Foghorn Leghorn wrote:I say, I say, I think you're right there boy.
In the photo, it looks more like a baked-potato.
Margaret, says...
1:38pm Thu 8 May 08
It's probably a double-yoker which is laid about once a year by hens at the end of their cycle
Oh no.... you've mentioned cycles - my friend Freda will be along in a minute !!!
animal lover, says...
3:26pm Thu 8 May 08
Christoff, says...
3:55pm Thu 8 May 08
bob, t'internet says...
4:56pm Thu 8 May 08
Freda Weeler, says...
5:13pm Thu 8 May 08
Egbert Egspert, Ovum Perching says...
5:28pm Thu 8 May 08
To hatch, hen eggs need to be fertilized by a ****. The egg in question may not have been.
Egbert Egspert, Ovum Perching says...
5:36pm Thu 8 May 08
Kay Effcey, looking for Foghorn Leghorn, what a Bargain Bucket he'd make! says...
7:39pm Thu 8 May 08
Cluck me, (sorry for the fowl language) I bet the hen WAS a little acher after laying that!
King Mush, Woolston says...
1:43am Fri 9 May 08
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Eggo picture by Stuart Martin. Order no: 6666143
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Foghorn Leghorn, Farmyard says...
8:00am Thu 8 May 08