An Australian farmer received the shock of his life when he went to collect the daily eggs from his chickens.
One of his hens had laid a gigantic egg that was 6.2 ounces in weight and three times the size of a normal egg.
The babushka egg was deposited by a free-range chicken at Stockman’s Eggs on the Atherton Tablelands in north Queensland.
Owner of the business Scott Stockman posted a photo of the incredible discovery he and his staff made at the farm.
Compared to a regular-sized egg, it looks incredibly unusual, but what they found when they opened the egg might have been even stranger.
Inside the egg was another egg, properly formed.
“It’s just amazing to have two perfectly formed eggs together,” Scott said to ABC News Australia.
A Charles Sturt University expert in veterinary sciences said that it was the first of its kind.
Associate Professor Raf Freire believes that the hen would have typically formed an egg but decided not to lay it for whatever reason.
“Instead of that egg being laid, as it usually is, what’s happened is that another ovum has been released,” he then said to ABC News.
That has dropped, and the chicken has decided, for no apparent reason, to envelop the newly dropped ovum in a shell along with the egg from the previous day.
Scott told ABC News that they get 50,000 eggs a day and so “didn’t bother eating it,” despite the experts’ advice that it would have been safe to eat.
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