Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Hen lays giant egg

Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Previous of Images Next Mark Cornish, from Ipswich, Suffolk, poses with an over sized egg, laid by his hen Matilda. Mark Cornish with Matilda"s hulk egg, and inset the egg subsequent to a normal sized egg. Photo: PA Pet Hen Matilda onwed by by Mark Cornish from Ipswich, Suffolk, who has laid a beast egg. Matilda the hulk egg laying hen Photo: PA

Matilda has usually ever constructed 4 eggs so it contingency have been a shock when she laid one that was we estimate 4 times bigger than the normal duck egg.

Her owner, Mark Cornish, pronounced the egg is about 9cm (3.5in) high and has a rim of 21cm (8.3in).

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Mr Cornish, 36, of Ipswich, Suffolk, pronounced he was intensely repelled when he pulled the outrageous egg out of the stable at the bottom of his garden.

""I was so surprised, I thought a crow contingency have got in there by mistake,"" he said.

""It does not see as though a duck would have laid it. I think it is 4 times bigger than a normal egg.

""The complaint is the bombard is paper thin. It"s already had a crack in it so I think I competence have to eat it tonight.

""Matilda has not been laying eggs that prolonged - this is usually her fourth or fifth - so it contingency have come as a bit of a shock for her.""

The techer and his partner, Denise Bartram, have kept their 4 hens, Matilda, Phyllis, Ada and Polly, in their grassed area for the past 6 months.

Despite her outrageous effort, Matilda, the Dutch Welsummer, sadly did not have the tip of the universe jot down charts.

A orator for Guinness World Records said: ""The largest hen egg was a five-yolked egg measuring 31cm (12.2in) around the prolonged axis, 22.8cm (9in) around the short and weighing scarcely 340g (12oz).

""It was laid by a Black Minorca at Mr Stafford"s Damsteads Farm, Mellor, Lancs, in 1896.""

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