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A chicken named Thelma, R.I.P.

Betsy Marston | Aug 14, 2008 12:00 AM
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A chicken named Thelma laid a gigantic egg that might have set a record,reports Capital Press. It was eight inches in circumference and the size of a small ostrich egg. “’Ouch’ was my first reaction,” said the chicken’s owner, Margaret Hamstra. Unfortunately, Thelma died a few days later, which, as Hamstra sadly noted, “kind of puts a damper on the story.”

Thelma's large egg

Posted by Margaret Hamstra at Sep 11, 2008 08:53 AM
Just an update on Thelma's egg. We put a small hole in the egg and were going to "blow it out", but quickly discovered it had another egg inside of that one. We were able to clean them both out and leave them intact. So her egg had a normal size egg inside the larger egg. Both eggs had a yoke and whites. My son has it in a display box on the mantle now.

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