Video: Cracking Open a Big Egg
This is what you do if you find a frighteningly big egg laid by one of your hens: film yourself cracking it open and upload your video to YouTube, thus freaking out the rest of the Internet. (Don't worry; it's nothing gross, just unexpected.) Watch the video after the jump.
Big Egg
For more in egg weirdness, check out this webpage about egg oddities. [via Metafilter]
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14 Comments:
Hahahaha.
egghunt at 9:13AM on 09/03/09
HAHAHA. i love his deadpan tone.
enblithe at 9:25AM on 09/03/09
So i watched this at work without the volume on.... so i dont know if he offers an explanation. While unusual, this isn't some freak-of-nature sort of thing.
Similar to the explanation for the double-yolked eggs, this egg-within-an-egg generally happens with first-time layers, or perhaps the first egg of the laying season. When an egg gets made the yolk, then white are formed and then it moves to the shell gland to get a membrane and shell. Eggs are laid on average, once a day. At the first egg-laying season, the hormones and circadian rhythm (biological "clock" that registers day and night) isn't yet perfectly timed.
This means, the first egg might still be in the shell gland when a second yolk-and-white enter. So... the body produces a single shell that surrounds both of them.
These eggs dont make it into the market for the general public.
engmcmuffin at 9:30AM on 09/03/09
it cracks me up that the woman says, "oh, that poor chicken."
that was my thought exactly.
gastronomeg at 9:42AM on 09/03/09
@gastronomeg: me too. of course a woman would understand the trauma of giving birth to something that large!
MissL at 10:31AM on 09/03/09
I loved every second of that!
Elizabelle at 11:13AM on 09/03/09
It's like a fetus in fetu.
faycat at 11:22AM on 09/03/09
Brilliant. I love the little kid voice in the background. "Weird!!!" And the wife's reaction.. "oh, that poor bird"... priceless.
DanielJ at 11:22AM on 09/03/09
The man sure sports a lot of bling for cracking eggs.
bearsonawire at 11:44AM on 09/03/09
Kind of crazy... you are right, above though... very similar to the double yolk thing.
madfishgrill at 2:54PM on 09/03/09
"The big egg is a lot bigger."
Hahaha. I agree, enblithe. The deadpan tone really makes the video.
wunami at 3:33PM on 09/03/09
Wow. Now I was expecting an abnormal amount of yolks. Double wouldn't be unusual enough so I was thinking 3.
About 1/3 of the eggs my chickens have been laying have been double yolked but so far none have been double eggs. Now I'm sort of worrying about the freakishly big one I hard boiled last night for my batch of pickled eggs.
Noadi at 6:43PM on 09/03/09
:0
delilah at 2:39AM on 09/04/09
Imagine if you could market the egg in an egg.
For those that are cash strapped. The new egg squared. By a dozen get a dozen.
Of course it would make for an interesting hard boiled egg.
srfchf at 11:36AM on 09/05/09