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This Is a ‘Beast’ of a Chicken Egg — And You Won’t Believe What Was Found Inside

Jan. 22, 2013 10:15pm Liz Klimas

Why would a chicken egg evoke phrases like “oh my god” and ”shut up” from a grown man? It wasn’t the egg’s nearly 10-inch circumference and half a pound of weight. It was what was found inside the egg that was so surprising.

Sean Wilson posted a video showing what he calls a “beast” of an egg that he thinks could be the “biggest chicken egg in the world.” In the video he implies the egg came from a chicken he owns.

Sean Wilson Finds an Egg Within an Egg in Abnormally Large Chicken Egg

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

After showing off the size of the egg, he wants to figure out how many yolks are inside of it. Wilson taps the shell with a butter knife, and cracks it open into a frying pan.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

We don’t want to ruin the surprise of what was inside, but we will tell you it’s probably not what you might think. Watch the video find out (answer is posted after the video):

Although there was one yolk inside, bet you didn’t expect to see another whole egg emerge. It was an egg within an egg.

He cracks the more normal size egg that resided inside the behemoth one and found it was perfectly normal — only one yolk.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

“I can’t believe it,” Wilson said of his “golden egg.”

New Scientist addressed how this can happen a few years ago. Douglas Russell, a curator at the National History Museum in the U.K., explained that egg ends up getting pushed back up the oviduct in the wrong direction where it can be surrounded by another egg.

“A complete egg within a complete egg is a relatively rare occurrence,” Russell said.

Watch New Scientist’s video:

(H/T: Gawker)

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sbenard
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:01am
I feel sorry for the poor hen that laid that egg! That must have been painful!

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- FieldJudge
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:38am
  Here’s another one found Sept 2009…
  
  http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/09/04/egg-inside-an-egg/
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:03am
  That hen will never be the same. She is gonna need a diaper. lol
  
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- pdw
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:00am
  No the fact is when a chicken lays her eggs they are soft during those few seconds and will take any shape needed. If you have ever collected eggs you may have had this experience. It only happened to me once but the egg I caught sure ended up with a weird shape. It is also was a very weird feeling at the time for a young boy. I have never seen one this large but have seen eggs with as many as 3 yokes.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:28am
  I feel sorry for Blaze readers. How is this a top story over the Utah Sheriffs’ Association Letter to Obama?
  
  http://www.utahsheriffs.org/USA-Home_files/2nd%20Amendment%20Letter_1.pdf
  
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- MittensKittens
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:36am
  I guess that adds a new meaning to what came first the chicken or the egg!!!
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:21am
  Hey Trigus:
  That is indeed a magnificent letter. I have printed it out and posted it on the board in my office. If more people had such clarity of vision and as brassy of cajones, our country would not be in nearly as much trouble as it is presently in.
  
  But; Man does not live by death, destruction and armed insurrection alone and I for one do appreciate the lighter stories on the Blaze quite a bit…
  
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- imsteph
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:41am
  Did she get an epidural?
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:48am
  TRIGUS – Wonderful letter. It is NOT ‘BRAVE’ as much as it is just, and should be accompanied by similar letters from ALL who READ IT.
  
  Thus – Did you submit the letter as a news tip to The Blaze using the link below?
  Fox New’s Sean Hannity?
  Your local, America-first radio station?
  
  I hope you don’t mind, but I’m submitting it to the Blaze right now.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:49am
  I hope he contacted Guiness to find out what the world record chicken egg was before he destroyed it.
  
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- anothercomment
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:02am
  Trigus
  Thanks for the link, excellent letter. It’s proof that law abiding people are standing up, pushing back against politician that are grandstanding.
  But watch the video, it’s entertaining. It’s a reminder to stay grounded, which is needed when you realize that we are going to need to remain extremely vigilant for the next four years.
  
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- WatchingThePuppetShow
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:30pm
  Yes, OUCH!
  
  I have chickens to and have seen some large and very, very small eggs which we always get a laugh with, but nothing quite like this…yet.
  
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- DoomsdayProphet
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:48pm
  Trigus that is the best letter ever if that is real. GOD BLESS THEM.
  
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- horsefeathers99
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:40pm
  Growing up on a chicken farm, we used some of the larger eggs and the very small, but never found one like this, 2 or 3 yolks to an egg was not uncommon.
  
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- bryanmurdock
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:05pm
  This just happened to one of our eggs two days ago. Really crazy. Here is the link to our experience. Our egg was quite large to, check it out.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Dpcw-L-SYvU
  
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- bumpkin
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:43pm
  POOR biddy! I have heard much squawking and cackling from my biddies, when they lay, and have yet to hear a chicken actually scream. Must have happened there.
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 2:57am
  Growing up on a Farm, Us Boys developed a Strange Since of humor. We had a Great old time Teaching our City Living Cousins Where MILK came from, Where Bacon comes from & For the Girls We’d hide a Goose or Duck’s egg under a Chicken & Those girls would Flip when they saw that egg.
  One of the funniest things happened when we called a Skunk a Pole-Cat & one of my Cousins came in the house with a little Skunk of his very own, You never seen a House full of adults empty out so fast!
  Stranger still, that young skunk never once discharged it’s scent, In fact, from that day forward it would always come right up to our dog’s feeding dish & dig in, Out dog in the mean time would cower in the corner of it’s doghouse, too afraid to even come out!
  I remember Mom taking it to our local vet, Who Fixed it, gave it Rabies shots & we had a pet skunk for many long years. Great pets, As long as you keep them Washed, Fed & Combed, And you get some of the strangest looks from people when Strangers come to call.
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:46am
Ha, I’ll almost bet there is a hen somewhere who won’t sit down for a week!

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brigott
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:38am
We had one day on the farm where it was so windy, one chicken laid the same egg three times!

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- AntonW
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:42am
  Hahahaha!!
  
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- rootytoottootin
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 2:57am
  Good one, BRIGOTT!! To chang the subject- do you know why birds fly backwards? to keep the dust out of their eyes–Will Rogers. lol!
  
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Mamabrahma
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:37pm
I think it is funny that this is an article made it into the news! My brahma hen has laid two of these double eggs in the last three weeks.

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- thekuligs
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:43pm
  I know, people who have never lived on farms or raised their own food do not see the “odd” things that happen. You can get all kinds of weird eggs you would never see in a box at the grocery store.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:08am
  Fallout from Japan
  
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- mastice
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:22am
  @thekuligs
  
  Eggs don’t come from grocery stores?!! Oh my GOD! They lied to me again!
  
  (:
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:01pm
  MASTICE:
  That reminds me of a funny story from Sarah Palin. A viewer wrote in angrily after witnessing her shoot a Caribou on TV; “Why don’t you go to the supermarket and get your meat where it comes from instead of killing a poor animal?” LOL….. Yes, they are out there and they all voted for Obama. God help us.
  
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- 338lapua
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 3:53pm
  Some of my older hens give me gigantic eggs. Only problem is there is no egg carton in existence that can hold them. Oh well, in the pan with you!
  
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TX_45_ACP
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:34pm
Not sure I would eat that… lol

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The-Monk
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:31pm
Let this be a lesson to you…

This is what happens when your Chicken has another personality hidden inside. : )

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- 3-Blue
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:07pm
  Yes, but is it multiple personality, possession or just a stowaway? Inquiring minds need to know…..
  
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The-Monk
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:30pm
Which came first?

The Chicken or the Egg or the Egg within an Egg?

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- I_AM_HARRISON_BERGERON
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:46pm
  The rooster :)
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:05am
  http://www.thrivemovement.com/home
  
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CulperGang
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:26pm
Genetically Modified foods are going to show many anomalies. ALL the unhealthy fat people, along with all kinds of allergies ARE the result of genetically modified foods. THAT what needs to be banned not 32 oz drinks. However, sodas have aspertame/sucralose BOTH are rat poison. Why is Bloomberg not decrying the atrocity of that? Ans: SICK PEOPLE ARE BIG BUSINESS, the ones that give him huge payoffs under the table for contracts and franchises.
ALL RICH PEOPLE EAT ORGANIC FOODS(google it)…they would never eat the poison big aggrafarms put out. Just like they EXEMPTED themselves from Obamacare and have the BEST doctors paid for by you and me. POLITICANS=LEECHES and PREDATORS on the taxpayers.

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- pagraywolf
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:38am
  This has nothing to do with genetically modified foods! Great scot! While not an everyday occurrence, it isn’t rare. Ever study animal science? Do you understand the reproductive system of a bird? I have and do. Spread your BS on someone else’s field…
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:03am
  Yeah, life in general will show occasional malfunctions (at least in this fallen world), just like any other technology.
  
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- Exiled
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:36am
  Nobody’s stopping you from planting a garden.
  Stop whining.
  If you don’t like to eat “genetically modified” food, then by all means, DO NOT BUY IT. Nobody’s forcing it down your gullet.
  
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- AntonW
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:47am
  If you can find locally raised chicken BUY IT! Do not eat the filthy, tasteless chickens the big chains sell. Did you know they are raised in filthy conditions, fed on feed full of chemicals and then processed in a sea of fecally contaminated water? To top it off, they’re injected with a saline solution that has fecal material in it and it’s allowed by the FDA. That’s why the government tells you to handle it in your kitchen like your dealing with toxic waste. It’s not worth the cheap price. Once you taste real chicken, you won’t want the factory farmed stuff anyway.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-MbPwaY6Y
  
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- ChrisDiamond
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 10:50am
  While each of the commenters are correct about mutations being common, and this nor likely to be caused by any imposed genetic mutation or modification, it does little to so casually dismiss the OP’s remark about genetically modified foods. The patenting power over life granted to companies like Monsanto has led to a number of miserable experiences and bankrupting legal challenges for American farmers, Canadian farmers, Mexican farmers, Indian farmers, South American farmers… and our chemical-based farming exploits are destructive to the environment. Is the availability of cheap food (in price and quality) more important than our continuing abaility to cultivate the earth for our sustenance?
  
  Monsanto and company are the major players in Big Ag, and you would all do well to pay a little more attention to what they’ve done, and are doing with food and the production of food.
  
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honeydijon13
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:09pm
I heard the chicken that laid that egg asked for a tube of Preparation H

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honeydijon13
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:08pm
Looks like the egg Romney/Ryan laid. And that’s no yoke!

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- AntonW
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:48am
  Wait until you see the rotten egg the country is turned into in 4 years under that unvetted, inexperienced yolk of a President.
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/75412906@N05/6779860284/in/photostream/
  
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CatherineAnn
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:05pm
My chickens lay double yorks. I get around one a month out of 25 hens. Huge eggs but never two shells.

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tashuster
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:05pm
Eggtrordinary!

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manychildren
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:58pm
And here I was certain that they had found Tina’s wedding ring.
Now THAT would have been something

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:48pm
I feel sorry for the chicken that laid the giant egg.

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- gyro
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:55pm
  yup must of hurt
  
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ilovepotatoes
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:44pm
I gotta see the size of that chicken!

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Dancing_In_The_Ruins
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:43pm
I bet the chicken ripped a new one on that.

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commonsenseguy
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:39pm
just wait until the regulating obama commiecrats see this, they will try and force the egg industry to provide abortions or at least give the chickens the morning after pill at the cost to the taxpayers, heck who knows they just might tell americans that since a chicken laid a double egg the government will now have to ban the sale and the eating of eggs because of the dangers the rest of the chickens will endure because of this one crazy chicken.

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djeffcoat
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:38pm
Which came first, the egg or the egg?

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- I_AM_HARRISON_BERGERON
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 11:20pm
  The correct answer to that one will always be the rooster.
  
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- Jarhead 88
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:58am
  The Rooster didn’t come from an egg?
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:03am
  Jerry Cantrell’s father came first????
  
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mtsnj
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:36pm
so the yolk came before the egg, egg

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lel2007
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:32pm
The whole F’ing country, along with the rest of the world is collapsing to socialism. And The Blaze gives us rag magazine tripe.

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- RamonPreston
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:11am
  You’re absolutely right! I guess the yoke is on us.
  
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- widowofanAirForcevet
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 4:42pm
  Those of us that raise chickens for eggs and meat are always curious about chicken behavior. I am sure many Blaze readers have chickens to be able to feed ourselves when tshtf. Lighten up. An egg could save your life.
  
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1_Smoot_Tall
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:31pm
“Iit’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

-Winston Churchill

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banjarmon
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:30pm
What would it look like if it hatched?

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- circleDwagons
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:44pm
  Did not look like it was fertilized. Cool thanks BLAZE
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:44am
  You aren’t given a close enough shot of the yolk(s) to say whether it (they) was fertilized. If you know what you’re looking for, you need nothing more than a good set of eyes to tell if it was fertilized.
  
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- Melika
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:51am
  It only takes a few hours for an egg yolk to start to show signs of being fertilized (I’m not telling). Given the fact that the egg would need to travel back up the oviduct, then stay inside the hen until a new shell formed around the egg, there would probably be enough time to see these signs in the picture.
  
  STFU city slicker.
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:52am
  Melika,
  Did you look at the pictures before you wrote this?! The spot on the yolk that would appear soon after fertilization is too small to be seen in these photos. Sheesh…
  
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- Salamander
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:23pm
  Either a chick holding an egg or a chick looking through a broken egg shell at his/her brother/sister! Or, maybe it would look like a chick that just laid an egg!
  
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:26pm
Chickens on the dole.

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DZ-015
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:21pm
How did it taste?

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FreeUsAll
Posted on January 22, 2013 at 10:19pm
So, had it been fertilized, the embryo would have had to contend with an egg for space. I bet the chick would have come out lop-sided.

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