Yesterday when I was gathering eggs, I had to take a second look when I looked in and saw this egg.
Big Egg
Not only is it huge but the surface is ruffly. I cannot imagine what it must have felt like to lay that egg. Truthfully, I have no idea how it feels to lay any egg but that one is huge!
In the carton with other normal sized eggs, it looks amazingly huge.
Big Egg
Here it is with a large egg on the left an a bantam egg on the right.
Big Egg
From Wikipedia, here’s a chart of egg sizes.
Egg Chart
The chart shows that a jumbo egg weighs 70.9 grams. This big egg weighs 75 grams!
Big Egg
Just for fun, the bantam egg weighs in as a peewee egg. She may lay peewee eggs, but she’s a huge pain in the back side.
Bantam Egg
I wasn’t sure if it would maybe have a triple yolk but it was only a double.
Big Egg
Both our eggs this morning had double yolks.
Double Yolks
Without the shell, the big egg weighed 66 grams.
Big Egg
An average egg weighed 46 grams!
Average Egg
I’m betting there’s a hen out there that hopes she never lays an egg that big again!
Sherrill Pecere says
UGH! Really! It’s like my 10 lb 3 oz baby I ‘laid’! HA That was NOT FUN!
The Eclectic Abuela says
OUCH!
princess says
If that egg had been in the grocrery I would be curious as to what animal laid it. If I knew it was a regular chicken egg I don’t think I’d buy it with the simply shell.**Speaking of double yolks, everyone thought I was having twins since I was so big. Like Sherrill (but didn’t she push all the way?)he was a single,(after 18hr of labor mercifully I got a c/section) a 10 1/2 lb. 22 1/2″ boy. My first child. ***That poor little chicken. Do you know which one laid it? Does she walk funny? 🙂
princess says
The word was dimply, NOT simply–darn auto correct!
Karen Sutton says
Guinness Book of World Records???:)