This would make your eyes water. Our three hens usually lay eggs weighing about 57g. That’s a fairly medium-sized egg, and although a little smaller than you might buy in the shops it’s not out of the ordinary.
What is out of the ordinary is a 200g egg, like the one laid by ‘Little Lil’, a hen kept at a pupil referral unit in Gloucestershire. And she’s not just done it one, either, but three times.
You just need to look at the size of it compared to Lil herself to realise what an achievement that is. She must have been stretched for a week, poor girl.
I wonder how many yolks it contained. Our biggest egg to date was 77g and contained two.
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thats me on the video -well almost me, i do have teeth which dont seem to be there on the video!
the famous Lil has laid five 11cm eggs so far , over december and january, – these in between normal eggs. She rarely takes a day off laying.
we have opened three big eggs – each of these has inside a yolk, a white, and a perfect normal egg ! Honestly!
The first big egg was way over 200g, we only had a postal scale at home and we reset the zero so we got as far as 215g and the egg was still over the weight.
Sadly it had broken by the time we got the new scales. The second big egg 199g was in school with Lil for the press when Lil laid the third egg in the presence of teh photographer! The kids were all jumping around saying ‘she is doing it again’ and all teh staff were saying ‘I dont think so !’ !!
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The chickens are fed normal pellets and also kitchen scraps and teh odd bowl of porage. They are free range in our large garden near the city, every weekend, and in a run all week except when up at eth centre with the kids.
I think the biology is that the first egg didnt leave the duct in time, the next yolk arrived and got wrapped with the first egg. If you increase a normal egg by 1cm radius all round, to accomodate the second yolk, thats when you get a 200 g egg. The other big eggs online are all much teh same size.
We are watching Lil with care, but hav eto say she is really happy and healthy.