Posted on 06/16/2006 12:16:01 PM PDT by Kurt_Hectic
A hen from Molde managed to lay an egg roughly twice the normal size.
The Sponås family in Strande, Molde had a hen that managed to lay an egg weighing 122 grams (4.3 oz), compared to the norm of 50-60 grams, newspaper Romsdal Budstikke reports. It was the last thing the bird did.
"I couldn't believe my own eyes when she laid an egg that was more than twice the size of a normal hen's egg. It looked completely unreal, with a 122-gram egg," Solveig Sponås told the newspaper.
The hen, a Loman Brown, came from Erlend Aarskog's poultry farm, and he has never heard of an egg like it.
"It is at least extremely rare. With eggs like this you would only get eight eggs to the kilo, and normally you get 16," Aarskog said.
Sponås wondered if diet, as well as talent, was behind the record production, saying her hens are fed much fruit and vegetables in addition to their feed.
The story ended sadly. As the newspaper put it, it is no joke laying an egg twice normal size, and the hen suffered injuries so serious that it had to be put down.
Don't count your chickens before they're ha....oh, nevermind.
Don't put all your eggs in one eggshell..........
Keep the ostrich out of the hen house?
"Unnngh!!!"
A hen from Molde managed to lay an egg roughly twice the normal size.I suspect the hen was goosed, so to speak ...
Kids these days are just so ungrateful...
Don't let fruits into your henhouse.
A link to a local newspaper with a picture of the amazing egg:
http://www.rbnett.no/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060615/LOKALNYTT/106150021&SearchID=73247876734817
The egg, were they able to incubate it. Or did they think there was more profit to be made in blowing it empty and putting it on display?
When life gives you a killer egg, make a killer omelet.
Another of AlGore's portents which prove the existence of global warming.
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
Yup, that was the morale! Very good!!! The hen was of the type "Loman Brown" BTW...
Had to put the chicken down did they. I hope in 11 herbs and spices.
"Uncooked Eggs Really Can Kill You".
Arrrg! That degenerate farmboy is wearing a damn thumbring!
This is the funniest line. I don't think talent kills, in general.
That's a big pecker.
Moral: We know the chicken came first but the egg finished last!
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