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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