"Jamie was really shocked when he cracked it, he was like 'what is this?'" Rachael Ward told 9News.com.au.
Rachael Ward told 9News.com.au her fiancé Jamie was making breakfast on Saturday and discovered theThe second egg was so small and perfectly shaped, weighing just 2 grams, it was like a real-life nesting doll.Rachael Ward's fiancé Jamie found this tiny egg inside a full-sized chicken egg. "I had a look and thought another yolk and then I touched it and it was hard."Though rare, a smaller egg being found inside an egg is not an unheard of phenomenon.
This occurs when a second oocyte – or ovary cell – is released by a hen's ovary before the original egg has been properly formed and laid.They have decided to keep the tiny egg at home in the fridge wrapped in tissue." just very surprised," she added of the double egg.They took the little egg back to Gauci and showed him their discovery and he measured it at just over 10mm and weighing exactly 2g.
In 2016, a woman in Britain discovered her chook had hatched a 1.55cm egg, breaking the Guinness World Record for world's small chicken egg. : Stay across all the latest in breaking news, celebrity and sport via our WhatsApp channel. No comments, no algorithm and nobody can see your private details.
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