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 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
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