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Egg Weighing Three Times More Than Normal On A Farm In Queensland

Egg Weighing Three Times More Than Normal On A Farm In Queensland

An average egg weighs around 58 grams and this one was a whopping 176 grams

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie

Prepare yourself for an eggstreme amount of egg puns after the mother of all eggs was found on a farm in Queensland, Australia.

I'm not yolking, this incredibly large egg was produced by a free-range hen at Stockman's Eggs farm, with employees discovering there was an egg within the egg.

That's eggception right there.

Stockman's says an average egg weighs around 58 grams and this one came in at a whopping 176 grams.

Stockman's Eggs

Scott Stockman grew up on the farm and says he's never seen something so eggcellent in his life. He reckons it's the largest egg ever produced since Stockman's started in 1923.

The 47-year-old has told news.com.au: "It has got everyone baffled about why it happened."

It's not only got farmers confused, but experts as well. Associate Professor Raf Freire from Charles Sturt University's veterinary sciences school said he's still trying to process exactly how it happened. His central theory is that the hen produced the egg as normal and then it was retained and absorbed in the next egg.

Stockman's Eggs

Speaking to ABC, Professor Freire said: "It's not too unusual if a hen is very stressed, you sometimes see it in cages, where they retain that egg. They don't lay it, but behaviour just stops and the hen usually goes back to feeding.

"Then the next day, rather than that egg being laid, like it usually is, what's happened is that there's been another ovum released.

"That's come down and then the chicken has somehow decided to make its shell around both the previous day's egg and the new ovum that's come down."

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Under normal circumstances, a retained egg would eventually fall out before the next one was produced, but this one appears to be a pretty eggstreme and eggceptional circumstance.

The one thing that everyone can agree on is that the poor hen would have had a painful time popping this one out.

Mr Stockman told the Daily Mail: "The hens are really well cared for and have a great diet. But at the end of the day it's just a complete freak of nature that it came out that way."

There is actually an official term for eggception, counter-peristalsis contraction, according to Countryside Daily, and it happens when the hen is in the very early stages of forming an egg in the oviduct before the previous egg has been properly passed.

The yolks are apparently perfectly fine to eat but there's no word whether Mr Stockman had the double whammy fried, scrambled or poached.

Sources: Stockman's Eggs, news.com.au, ABC, Daily Mail, Countryside Daily

Featured Image Credit: Stockman's Eggs

Topics: Food, Eggs, Community, Weird, Australia