It’s the only explanation.
My Girls are still young, and I wouldn’t normally expect Extra Large (60g) eggs from chooks until their second year. However, they’re regularly producing eggs in the Large to Extra Large range, which I feel indicates they are well-fed and contented.
However, I think there’s an interloper in the flock.
It HAS to be an emu. It’s the only explanation.
Below, an Extra Large egg, at 59g/2oz. Above… well, on its own, it weighed 110g/nearly 4oz. Ouch.
The Husband and I will be squabbling over who gets this one for breakfast – it’s clearly a double-yolker. I have yet to discover which of the Girls offered up this monster. I only know it’s not Lacey, who lays more petite darker brown eggs. I have my suspicions, and Peachy is top of the list…
I’ll be keeping an eye on that girl.
talltalesfromchiconia 
definitely a double yolker ^^
Absolutely!
I say she who collects it eats it 😁 (… Hoping John wasn’t the collector and I’m actually helping haha!)
I couldn’t agree more! J usually has two for breakie anyway, so a Super-Jumbo egg seems a little unfair…
Emu is the only explanation!
Particularly as none of the Girls has been going around with their legs crossed! It’s a seriously ginormous egg and must have been rather trying to lay…
Triplets? Is that even possible?
It takes a hen 26 hours to put an egg together. Sometimes things slow down, and you get one egg with two lots of innards, but I’m pretty sure it’d never slow down enough for 3 yolks.
Things I didn’t know…and pretty basic, too, I should have! Especially since I eat them 🙂 Someone Else did the grocery shopping the other day and came home with what he said were flamingo eggs. I wasn’t really paying attention but did have the fleeting thought that they sounded more like a delicacy than ordinary chicken eggs. I decided I didn’t want to eat them, but today the subject came up – apparently the Flamingo part is the name of the free-range chicken farm where they came from. Boy, did I feel stupid.
I have found that there’s not an enormous difference in flavour between eggs, and I’ve tried a few, including a couple of exotics. I would have been startled at the notion of flamingo eggs, too, and don’t think it was a stupid assumption at all.
Ouch!
My thought too!
I think anyone with the right equipment probably thought the same…
Well, quite! Poor girl…
I bet that hurt!
No one was walking funny today, though. Chickens are made of stern stuff.
Wow, Kate. Isn’t that a mystery?
It’s certainly an impressive piece of work, and the shell is also rather sturdy, so clearly not a rush job!
I’m looking forward to reports once you’ve cracked the egg.
It was a double-yolker, but otherwise just a regular delicious just-laid free range egg… Mind you, the shell was definitely stronger than usual. It took quite a bit of cracking.
Fascinating!
That’s gotta hurt 😊
Meanwhile I’m watching Cinderella with my girls at the Regent Theatre 🎭
Have fun. And yes, I tend to agree!
Three of my four babies were huge — close to or over 10 lbs/4.5k. My sympathies for the hen in this story.
Mine too. Both my brothers were huge, one of them 13lbs. I can’t even… It would be like birthing a giant beach ball.
Oh my goodness!!!! They are clearing happy chooks. You are a good mom to them.
I like to think so, and this massive effort seems to back that up. I had it for breakfast, poached, on buttered toast. A double-yolker, as suspected, and it was delicious!
Wow! You’ll have to tell us whether the flavor was significantly different from the other eggs – you know, just in case. 😉
No emu flavour detected, but it was very, very tasty!
Double yolkers, and I imagine double delicious… very good chookies indeed.
It was eggcellent! Whoever laid it had been brewing it for a while, as the shell was also quite substantial – it took quite a smack to break it.
Extra treats for Peachey! And all the girls, just in case!
Today they got pumpkin and passionfruit. Anything too exotic and I’d worry the flavour of the eggs would be affected…
Whopper for sure whuch one of your girls isn’t walking well may indicate the wonderHen
They all seem fine and perfectly normal!
Wow, that is huge!!!
I know, poor girl!