Extraordinary Hen Lays World's Biggest Eggs

A hen that has just laid an egg three times bigger than normal. The egg weighs a hefty 6ozs - which is a staggering a quarter of a pound heavier than the average 2oz gram egg.Couple Steve and Annie Egginton from Chew Magna, Somerset, were amazed when they saw what their one-year-old white Sussex hen had produced.

The egg was laid on the opening day of the Olympics - which also happened to be Annie’s 59th birthday.

Steve, 60, said that despite keeping chickens for more than three decades he has never seen anything like it. 

Last year Hattie then Hen of Four Marks, Hampshire, laid an egg weighing 5.7 ozs, was three and a half inches long and eight inches in circumference.Hattie’s owner Jeremy Paget, 50, had only been rearing his nine chickens for only six months. He used his egg to make an enormous omelette.

And in 2010 Harriet the hen of Newquay laid an egg 4.5 inches long with a 9.1-inch circumference - both measurements half an inch longer than the previous record holder. 

Tony Barbouti, a father of two, was one of 17 hens kept in his garden and fed on mash and vegetable peelings.