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Dying chicken lays 138-gram egg
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| Sept. 28
Posted on 09/28/2009 2:20:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono
HONEOYE FALLS, N.Y., An upstate New York farmer said a recently deceased chicken left behind an impressive legacy -- an egg weighing 138 grams, almost 5 ounces.
Chris Schauerman of Honeoye Falls said he noticed one of his chickens appeared ill one day last week and died later that night after laying the massive object, which is 2 1/2 times the size of an average egg, CNN reported Monday.
"I just couldn't believe it," Schauerman said. "You open up the chicken coop, and sitting inside the nest with five other eggs is just this behemoth."
"We kind of related it to a woman having a 25-pound baby, if you do the math," Schauerman said. "I'm pretty sure that's what eventually led to the death of the chicken."
Schauerman said he is loaning the egg to a teacher friend for show-and-tell with schoolchildren before it goes on to fulfill its final purpose.
"I'm gonna make an omelet. Maybe a little ham. Delicious !" Schauerman said.
TOPICS: Food; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: chicken; egg; ny
Saturday, April 21, 2007 World's Largest Chicken Egg
A super large chicken egg was recently found in Jiangyou City, China's Sichuan Province. It weighs 235 grams, 87 grams heavier than a Ukrainian egg officially recognized as the world's largest egg by Guiness World Record in 2004.
To: JoeProBono
....darn near killed her.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:21:09 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:21:40 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Double your income. Fire the government)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:23:10 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: BenLurkin
I guess we’ll have to revise that saying out how a chicken is involved in providing you with a ham and egg breakfast, but the pig is committed.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:24:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:25:28 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: JoeProBono
Wow. My wife would love to turn that into pysanki.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:26:11 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
To: JoeProBono
Ewww........I wouldn't even think of eating that thing.
Who knows what kind of filthy ChiCom pollution caused it to get that big.
Feel bad for the bird.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:28:32 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
To: JoeProBono
Imagine what that must do to the rest of the chickens. Egg production might be a little below average after lay a big one and die.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:28:36 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: JoeProBono
Mr. Rooster has final confirmation that his wife was, in fact, having an affair with the goose.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:28:59 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: EggsAckley
Oh, my bad, it wasn’t from China.
Still wouldn’t eat it though.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:29:48 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
To: DManA
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:29:54 PM PDT
by
Anvilhead
(Dammit Jim, I'm an American not an American't.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:31:21 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: RichInOC
LMAO! One of the best FR threads ever.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:31:47 PM PDT
by
manic4organic
(We Are S0 Screwed)
To: Lady Jag
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:34:25 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
and at long last the prophecy was realized.
Chick Norris was born.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:35:32 PM PDT
by
Anvilhead
(Dammit Jim, I'm an American not an American't.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:36:43 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: autumnraine
To: autumnraine
To: JoeProBono
Jimmy replies........No body fertilized me....So I get fried..
To: JoeProBono
Hmm. I suspect fowl play...nyuk, nyuk,nyuk. That looks more like a reptile egg. Probably a baby gator in there.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:40:09 PM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(Will work for ammo.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:40:26 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Double your income. Fire the government)
To: All
From the maker of Alien and Aliens. Just when you thought the coop was a safe place to nest.
CHICKALIEN, rated R.
To: JoeProBono
At least now we know which came first.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:41:37 PM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: JoeProBono
Maybe that egg could be a metaphor for Obamacare. And the late chicken a symbol of Der Fuhrer’s political career.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:43:11 PM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: andy58-in-nh
At least now we know which came first.
To: JoeProBono
Looks like a dinosaur egg. Maybe they should have kept it incubated to see if a throwback popped out.
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:45:17 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Lady Jag
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:46:59 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/28/2009 2:49:25 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(Double your income. Fire the government)
To: goat granny
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:07:11 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: EggsAckley
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:09:02 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
No yolk for hen
A hen has produced an egg with a difference.
The eye-watering odd-shaped egg was produced by the hen in Slivno, southern Croatia.
"I thought it was some sort of odd-shaped potato. I couldn't believe it had come out of one of my hens," said farmer Neda Glibota, 72.
"I called friends to look at it and they were just as amazed as me. None of us have seen anything like it before," Neda added.
Now the egg has been spared the frying pan as proud Neda has put it on show.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:14:38 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: JoeProBono
I would never eat a giant chicken egg like that. The reason something is abnormal is there is usually something wrong with it.
I did see a video of a man opening one though. Inside was another, normal sized chicken egg. I guess the poor chicken was forming layers, like a hailstone.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:19:22 PM PDT
by
I still care
(A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:27:07 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
To: JoeProBono
Reminds me of an old joke: “Mr. Jones, I have good news ans bad news. The good news is, your wife just gave birth to a healthy 18 pound boy. The bad news is............”.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:27:53 PM PDT
by
CalvaryJohn
(What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:32:37 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: I still care
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:38:35 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
LOL ...is that the breakfast of champions?
Better save it for some hot chicks.
[This whole thread is worthless without bacon]
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:41:09 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:42:41 PM PDT
by
maggief
To: andy58-in-nh
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:44:50 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:47:06 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: I still care
I did see a video of a man opening one though. Inside was another, normal sized chicken egg.Yup. One of my chickens did this also. 5oz egg, just huge. We cracked it open and inside was the normal sized egg. I have photo on a SD card around here somewhere.
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posted on
09/28/2009 3:54:33 PM PDT
by
Big Giant Head
(Running my computer bare naked for over a year with no infections at all.)
To: Big Giant Head
Don’t eat it........EBAY IT!
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