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Check out this massive egg

By Ruth D'Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener

We heard you wanted to see a picture of a simply gigantic egg. So here it is:

Can you tell which one it is yet?

The Wildlife Gardener was cleaning out the henhouse this morning. Imelda was in the nestbox. When hens lay, they make a contented whirring purring noise, and scuffle about. Imelda seemed more agitated than usual so I closed the henhouse to give her some darkness and peace.

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Half an hour later the Junior Wildlife Gardeners rushed in, laughing hysterically that they had found a ‘duck’s egg’. And what a massive egg Imelda had laid:

7 cm long and weighing 100g! Poor Imelda. What an eye-waterer. This wasn’t the result of being egg-bound as she had laid a perfectly normal-sized one yesterday. We couldn’t actually close the egg box:

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Posted on 25th September 2009 at 10 19 pm
by The Virtual Ranger
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Categories: Birds, Notes from a Wildlife Garden

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Comment from: The Wildlife Gardener

We had a ceremonial cracking of the massive egg this morning. It was a double-yolker with two full-size yolks. The JWGs were disappointed there wasn't a little dragon inside it.

Permalink 26/09/09 @ 11:14

Comment from: The Virtual Ranger [Admin] · http://naturenet.net

I'm surprised there wasn't a big dragon inside it!

Permalink 26/09/09 @ 11:21

Comment from: ghostmoth

Great story and I love your highly scientific ruler!!

Permalink 28/09/09 @ 12:32

Comment from: Richard · http://honesthypocrite.blogspot.com/

Being a twin myself, I was always partial to the double yoked egg. My grandmother would always call us into the kitchen to see one.

Permalink 28/09/09 @ 19:11

Comment from: The Wildlife Gardener

As you can see, ghostmoth, I have a whole selection of high spec scientific measuring devices...:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildlifegardener/3823386839/

Permalink 29/09/09 @ 09:29

Comment from: The Wildlife Gardener

Quite tricky to divide up a double-yolker, Richard - not enough white.

Permalink 29/09/09 @ 09:30

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