{"id":7385,"date":"2024-12-06T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2024-12-06T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:14:53","slug":"farmer-finds-giant-egg-but-what-was-inside-was-even-more-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=7385","title":{"rendered":"Farmer finds giant egg but what was inside was even more puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storyhaven.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot_21-1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A farmer in Australia got the shock of his life when he went to collect the daily delivery of eggs from his hens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of his hens had laid a giant egg, three times the size of a normal egg and weighing 6.2 ounces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The babushka egg was laid by a free-range chicken at the Stockman\u2019s Eggs on the Atherton Tablelands, in north Queensland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott Stockman, who runs the business, posted a photo of the incredible discovery he and his staff made at the farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing it next to an average-sized egg it looks so unusual but perhaps what was more unusual was what they found after they cracked the egg.<br><br>Inside the egg was another egg, perfectly formed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just incredible actually \u2014to have two perfectly formed eggs together,\u201d Scott told ABC News Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An expert from Charles Sturt University\u2019s veterinary sciences school said he had never seen anything like it before.<br><br>Associate Professor Raf Freire says the hen must have produced an egg as normal but for some reason didn\u2019t lay it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThen the next day, rather than that egg being laid, like it usually is, what\u2019s happened is that there\u2019s been another ovum released,\u201d he told ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s come down and then the chicken has somehow decided to make its shell around both the previous day\u2019s egg and the new ovum that\u2019s come down.\u201d<br>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fstockmanseggs%2Fphotos%2Fp.1791176347855784%2F1791176347855784%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500<br>According to the experts the egg would have been safe to eat but Scott told ABC News that they get 50,000 eggs a day so \u201cdidn\u2019t bother eating it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty amazing, right? Share this story with your friends on Facebook if you found it incredible too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer in Australia got the shock of his life when he went to collect the daily delivery of eggs from his hens. One of his hens&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7386,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}