Fox News: Family's chicken lays 'ginormous egg' 3 times the normal size

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Family's chicken lays 'ginormous egg' 3 times the normal size

A father and his three daughters whose hen laid an egg three times the normal size say they've never seen anything like it before. They shared the details, including video and photos.......                    ...                        ...These days it's not the size of the chicken but the size of the chicken's egg that counts.......Rob Griffin and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login were stunned recently when their chicken laid a massive egg more than three times the normal size. (See the video at the top of this article.)......Griffin, 38, who lives in England with his three daughters, Ruby, 12, Elsie, 9, and Olive, 3, told news agency SWNS that it took their hen Gail five hours to lay the enormous egg.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The oversized egg weighed more than 6 ounces, Griffin said. ......Gail's eggs typically weigh about an ounce. An oversized You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login is about 2.5 ounces, SWNS reported.......A video shows Griffin cracking open the rare find to discover another shell inside. ......Griffin and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login can be heard saying, "What?" ......One of the girls says it's a "double yolker" — while her father corrects her, saying they've got a "double egger."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"My eldest daughter went to the hutch to see if the chickens had laid anything and she walked out with this ginormous egg," Griffin told SWNS. "It was the size of an ostrich egg."......Griffin initially thought "someone had planted it" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......."It was about triple the size of a normal egg," he said.......He called it a "rare phenomenon."......"We couldn't believe it," Griffin said. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"We thought it was going to be a double yolk, but when the second egg fell out, we were in shock. I didn't even know that could happen."......Griffin told SWNS that he cracked open the smaller egg from within, which he said was normal and had its You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The family has had Gail – along with another hen named Dorothy – for about a year.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Griffin said they've never seen anything like that before – and perhaps won't again.......The impressive hen is now apparently back to laying normal-sized eggs....

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