Real-Fix
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • Relationships
  • Bizarre
  • Crime
  • Health
  • Inspiration
  • Love This
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • Relationships
  • Bizarre
  • Crime
  • Health
  • Inspiration
  • Love This
No Result
View All Result
Real-Fix
No Result
View All Result

This giant egg was hiding an amazing secret

RealFix by RealFix
December 6, 2015
in Bizarre, Most Popular
0
This giant egg was hiding an amazing secret

Super size hen egg from a Light Sussex hen belonging to Emma Postlethwaite. A mum-of-two was shocked to find a giant egg in her chicken coop when she went to collect the morning's eggs. See NTI story NTIEGG. A whopping 5.9 oz egg was laid by Emma Postlethwaite's light Sussex hen. And in fact, it was so big, the giant egg actually had another egg inside it. Emma found the 167g egg in the coop among all the other eggs, it clearly stood out.

55
SHARES
56
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterWhatsapp

This is the egg-straordinary moment a mum-of-two’s brain was scrambled when she cracked open a giant egg to reveal another fully-formed one inside.

Emma Postlethwaite, 33, was stunned when she found the enormous 167g (5.9oz) egg which was laid by her hen Wendy.

The secondary school teacher filmed the moment she cracked the egg open only to find another standard-size egg inside.

In the incredible 45-second video, Emma can be heard saying: “Oh, it’s another egg. It’s like a Russian doll.”

She then cracks open the smaller egg, which also has a yolk and white inside, as her two-year-old son Austin points at the pan and says: “Egg”.

Super size hen egg from a Light Sussex hen belonging to Emma Postlethwaite.  A mum-of-two was shocked to find a giant egg in her chicken coop when she went to collect the morning's eggs.  See NTI story NTIEGG.  A whopping 5.9 oz egg was laid by Emma Postlethwaite's light Sussex hen.  And in fact, it was so big, the giant egg actually had another egg inside it.  Emma found the 167g egg in the coop among all the other eggs, it clearly stood out.

After cracking the large egg another popped out. See NTI story NTIEGG.  A mum-of-two was shocked to find a giant egg in her chicken coop when she went to collect the morning's eggs.    A whopping 5.9 oz egg was laid by Emma Postlethwaite's light Sussex hen.  And in fact, it was so big, the giant egg actually had another egg inside it.  Emma found the 167g egg in the coop among all the other eggs, it clearly stood out.
After cracking the large egg another popped out

After cracking the large egg another popped out. See NTI story NTIEGG.  A mum-of-two was shocked to find a giant egg in her chicken coop when she went to collect the morning's eggs.    A whopping 5.9 oz egg was laid by Emma Postlethwaite's light Sussex hen.  And in fact, it was so big, the giant egg actually had another egg inside it.  Emma found the 167g egg in the coop among all the other eggs, it clearly stood out.

Emma Postlethwaite after cracking the large egg.  See NTI story NTIEGG.  A mum-of-two was shocked to find a giant egg in her chicken coop when she went to collect the morning's eggs.    A whopping 5.9 oz egg was laid by Emma Postlethwaite's light Sussex hen.  And in fact, it was so big, the giant egg actually had another egg inside it.  Emma found the 167g egg in the coop among all the other eggs, it clearly stood out.
Amazed Emma after cracking the large egg

The mum-of-two also pops both eggs in the frying pan as her husband Damien, 34, who filmed the video, says: “An egg inside an egg. There you go.”

Emma, who lives with IT consultant Damien and their two sons, Austin and four-month-old Henry, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., uploaded the video to her Facebook page on Thursday evening where it has now been viewed 5,700 times.

She said: “We have four hens which we bought back in October. We keep them in the garden and eat the eggs they lay.

“The big egg was laid by Wendy. She’s an eight-month old Sussex hen.

“I opened the coop and saw it, it was just huge, I just couldn’t believe how big it was.”

“It was huge. It weighed 5.9 ounces.

“I have not seen anything like this, I did not know it could happen really.

“Austin loves the hens, he goes out and feeds them with mealworms and corn.

“When he saw the egg he was so excited, he kept pointing at it and saying ‘egg’ over and over again.

“The reaction has been one of amazement.”

Austin Postlethwaite with two of the family's hens.  A mum-of-two was shocked to find a giant egg in her chicken coop when she went to collect the morning's eggs.  See NTI story NTIEGG.  A whopping 5.9 oz egg was laid by Emma Postlethwaite's light Sussex hen.  And in fact, it was so big, the giant egg actually had another egg inside it.  Emma found the 167g egg in the coop among all the other eggs, it clearly stood out.
Austin with two of the family’s hens

The extremely rare occurence is known as a counter-peristalsis contraction and is caused when the hen is in the process of forming an egg in her oviduct and another oocyte – the ovum or egg cell that becomes the yolk of the egg – is released too soon.

Usually hens release an egg cell every 18 to 26 hours but sometimes a second one is released by the ovary before the first egg has completed its journey.

It is thought that a shock or stress then causes a contraction which forces the first egg to reverse its course meaning the two come together and the shell from the second egg creates a giant egg around the first one.

The phenomenon has been mentioned as far back as 1250 AD by the Dominican friar and polymath Albertus Magnus in his book De Animalibus.

Previous Post

Teen refuses to take out nose stud even though it could land her parents in court

Next Post

A mum’s brave decision to allow her three-year-old son grow up as a girl

RealFix

RealFix

Real Fix is a completely free true-life magazine. Check out our Facebook page for more videos and clips, or download our New Real-Fix Podcast for astonishing interviews with some of the real people behind our amazing stories.

Next Post
A mum’s brave decision to allow her three-year-old son grow up as a girl

A mum's brave decision to allow her three-year-old son grow up as a girl

You Must See

Carer who couldn’t afford to drive to work quit £14k a year job to earn £160k on OnlyFans – and travels round Europe in Mercedes

Carer who couldn’t afford to drive to work quit £14k a year job to earn £160k on OnlyFans – and travels round Europe in Mercedes

February 3, 2023
Ex-serviceman with life-limiting condition got the chance to pat a pony from his widow after nursing staff learned of his passion for horses

Ex-serviceman with life-limiting condition got the chance to pat a pony from his widow after nursing staff learned of his passion for horses

February 3, 2023
UK’s youngest daredevil competing in national motocross races – aged four

UK’s youngest daredevil competing in national motocross races – aged four

February 2, 2023
5 Blue Cheeses That Every Food Lover Should try

5 Blue Cheeses That Every Food Lover Should try

January 31, 2023
Bus-obsessed girl got the birthday surprise of a lifetime – her own private trip to school in a double decker

Bus-obsessed girl got the birthday surprise of a lifetime – her own private trip to school in a double decker

January 31, 2023
Charity’s oldest ever pair of dogs with combined age of 34 find forever home after previously being turned down for being too elderly

Charity’s oldest ever pair of dogs with combined age of 34 find forever home after previously being turned down for being too elderly

January 30, 2023
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • Relationships
  • Bizarre
  • Crime
  • Health
  • Inspiration
  • Love This

Real Fix is a trading style of South West News Service Limited.
Copyright © 2022 South West News Service Limited.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • Relationships
  • Bizarre
  • Crime
  • Health
  • Inspiration
  • Love This

Real Fix is a trading style of South West News Service Limited.
Copyright © 2022 South West News Service Limited.

googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('sticky'); });