# Family discovers enormous egg 'triple the size' laid by its chicken | Fox News

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## Family's chicken lays 'ginormous egg' 3 times the normal size

### Enormous egg cracked open reveals surprise: 'I didn't know that could happen'

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Published March 11, 2025 7:24am EDT

     



Rob Griffin and his daughters crack open an enormous egg that their hen laid, revealing another egg inside of it.

These days it's not the size of the chicken but the size of the chicken's egg that counts.

Rob Griffin and  were stunned recently when their chicken laid a massive egg more than three times the normal size. **(See the video at the top of this article.)**

Griffin, 38, who lives in England with his three daughters, Ruby, 12, Elsie, 9, and Olive, 3, told news agency SWNS that it took their hen Gail five hours to lay the enormous egg.



The oversized egg weighed more than 6 ounces, Griffin said.

Gail's eggs typically weigh about an ounce. An oversized  is about 2.5 ounces, SWNS reported.



Rob Griffin's hen laid an egg that was more than three times the size of a normal egg. (Rob Griffin/SWNS)

A video shows Griffin cracking open the rare find to discover another shell inside.

Griffin and  can be heard saying, "What?"

One of the girls says it's a "double yolker" — while her father corrects her, saying they've got a "double egger."



"My eldest daughter went to the hutch to see if the chickens had laid anything and she walked out with this ginormous egg," Griffin told SWNS. "It was the size of an ostrich egg."

Griffin initially thought "someone had planted it" .

"It was about triple the size of a normal egg," he said.



Griffin displayed the gigantic egg next to a standard egg to show the comparison. (Rob Griffin/SWNS)

He called it a "rare phenomenon."

"We couldn't believe it," Griffin said.

We thought it was going to be a double yolk, but when the second egg fell out, we were in shock. I didn't even know that could happen."



Griffin and his daughters were "in shock" when another egg fell out of the massive egg. "I didn't even know that could happen," Griffin said. (Rob Griffin/SWNS)

The family has had Gail – along with another hen named Dorothy – for about a year.



Griffin said they've never seen anything like that before – and perhaps won't again.



"The impressive hen is now apparently back to laying normal-sized eggs."

Peter Burke is a lifestyle editor with Fox News Digital.

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