America's Biggest Chicken Egg

Our journey of raising chickens,gardening,wildlife, dogs and mountain living. We can food such as pickles,jams, and recently learned about bread!We are organic in every way.This year we ditched all the amendments we used to buy in spring to feed our gardens, we are reaping the benefits of the compost pile we started. The circle of sustainability is growing.Along the way one of our special hens laid the biggest egg in America. Figured we must be doing something right!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Yesterday: The Day of Discovery

Yesterday marked a major milestone in Deerlick Springs Eggs. Jeff England, founder of the business, was collecting eggs as usual when he found the "golden ticket". What he pulled from the nest box shattered the record books, and set the bar for the term "Jumbo Sized". The egg, lain by an Americana chicken, weighed an astounding 6.6 ounces or 188 grams, setting a new American record and shattering the previous record of 5.5 ounces. Now keep in mind, the biggest chicken egg ever lain was 198 grams... We're sure this is not only the biggest chicken egg in America, but the second biggest IN. THE. WORLD.

1 comment:

SusanJune 19, 2011 at 3:51 PM
Your eggs are amazing whether they are jumbo or not! Can't wait to actually see this egg at the museum in Weaverville!
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