LINDA the rescue hen had a strange look in her eye that puzzled owners Steph Carr and Johnny Greenbank from Settle - until they saw the enormous egg.

The 109gram whopper dwarfed Linda’s usual efforts and was more than twice the size of a medium shop-bought egg.

Steph and Johnny keep hens on their allotment - but never have they seen such a whopper.

"We have rescued three hens from caged farms and bought another two younger ones from Bradford- however we believe the chicken that laid the huge egg is little Linda the eldest rescue as she was acting strange for a few days and hadn't laid," they said.

The enormous eggThe enormous egg (Image: Steph Carr)

"Linda is doing better now and seems happier."

The couple's children - Lucas, Mylan, and Edith, who help with looking after the hens, were really excited to weigh the egg and get it cracked open.

Steph added: ''We are not sure why this has occurred. I've been keeping chickens since I was a little girl and I've never seen anything like it. We just feed them on normal pellets and they are doing a great job of getting rid of the weeds on the allotment."

Weighing in at 3. 3/4oz (109g) they wondered whether it would be a quadruple yolker - but surprisingly, it ended up just a double.

"It was only a double yolker which was quite disappointing. But the yolks were massive," said Steph