The whopping egg with average-sized hens' eggs.
Yes, Harriet is still with us, though she walked with a limp for a bit following this mammoth specimen. At first, Harriet's owner, Tony Barbouti, must have thought it was a misplaced rugby ball.
Six-month-old Harriet and her 16 companions live in the taxi-driver's garden in Essex, England. Mr. Barbouti declares his hens nothing spectacular, 'They are not special hens. I feed them ordinary hen food and they give me a good supply of fresh eggs. But I think we may need bigger egg cups if they keep this up.'
Harriet, bearer of the record-breaking egg.
Contrasting sharply from the average egg's circumference of 5.5 inches and 2.3 inches length, the record-breaking ova was a whopping 9.1 inches in circumference, at a length of 4.5 inches. It also weighed nearly three times a normal hen-fruit, at 163 grams.
The egg was cracked and nearly lost during a photo session, due to Barbouti's dog, Bodie, jarring the table on which it sat atop normal eggs, but the egg survives for now- a record-breaker.
Says Barbouti, 'My hens have laid big eggs before but when I saw this one I was gobsmacked"
Comments
Goodness Harriet!!! Must have made a full size keish!!
Damn, that must of hurt!!!!
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