A HONEYOYE FALLS, NEW YORK, FARMER came out to his chicken coop one morning last week and found one of his hens, named Roberta, laying on the ground, hardly able to move. “I came up to the chicken and I nudged her,” said Chris Schauerman. “She was barely able to pick her head up before it fell back down to the ground.”
He soon found out why. Looking in Roberta’s nest he found five normal eggs and one monster-sized egg that was 2-½ times the normal size of an egg, and weighed 138 grams, over a quarter of a pound. It must have been a real task to deliver because Roberta died later that day. “I was pretty excited when I saw it but also kind of sad because I knew the chicken put forth its last effort to give this egg,” said Schauerman.
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