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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Local chicken - 1/4 pound egg
  • Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:30:16 -0600

One of our hens laid one that big this summer and it only had one yolk. Left hand is mine, right one holding the eggs is my husband's...and we both have big hands:
http://flowerweaver.blogspot.com/2008/07/that-must-have-hurt.html

--Sage


On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:12:08 -0800 (PST)
bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
This is from my local paper.'says an egg this big is rare. There is a pic on the paper's site, if you click on the link. I don't know if it is as unusal as the article reads...............bobford


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Southwest Valley

Tolleson chicken lays rare 4-ounce egg

by Jonathan J. Cooper - Nov. 21, 2008 08:42 AM

The Arizona Republic
Stan Wilkinson thought his son was pulling his leg when he brought a large egg in from their Tolleson backyard chicken coop.
At 4 ounces, the egg is almost twice the size of a standard egg.

Wilkinson is no amateur egg man. He grew up on a farm with thousands of chickens and he's seen his fair share of eggs. "I never saw an egg this big," he said. "I've never heard of anything like this before."

Wilkinson is unsure which of his 11 hens laid the giant egg. He thinks it was the largest, a Japanese silky named Kika.
He usually collects the eggs from his chicken coup each night and has scrambled eggs every morning, he said.

A chicken expert said the 4-ounce egg is rare.

Hickman's Family Farms, a Buckeye-based egg producer with 3 million chickens, occasionally sees eggs too big to fit in the company's largest cartons, said Clint Hickman, vice president of sales.
He said the egg might contain more than one yolk or no yolk at all. Abnormally large eggs are usually produced by the oldest and youngest hens, he said.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/swvalley/articles/2008/11/21/20081121swv-bigegg1121.html


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