A chicken well and truly established herself top of the pecking order after laying an eye-wateringly humungous egg.
The monster egg weighed 175g – three times the 50g ones Gail the chicken usually produces.
Her owners, from Newton Poppleford in Devon, were egging on Gail for over five hours as she struggled to pushed it out.
Eldest daughter Ruby, 12, was shell-shocked at the sheer size of it.
When dad-of-three Rob Griffin, 38, ultimately cracked open the egg he made a surprising discovery.
Gail’s humongous egg actually contained a second egg inside its shell.
Not a double yolker, but a ‘double egger’, Rob said.
His other daughters Elsie, nine, and Olive, three, were equally stunned by Gail’s rare feat.
Chickens lay eggs through their cloaca, also known as the vent.
It is a multi-purpose exit where chickens poop from, where the eggs come out, and where they mate with a rooster.
At their peak, egg-laying chickens lay up one egg per day, in a process which typically takes 24 to 26 hours.
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Most of this time is taken up fortifying the egg’s shell, which is crucial for defending the yolk from harmful bacteria.
Modern commercial hens can produce up to 300 eggs a year, but very rarely never as large as what Gail has pushed out.
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