Grandma’s cracking find after Breamlea backyard chooks lay mega eggs

Chook owners have discovered two huge eggs in their backyard coop, with one weighing well over triple the standard size.

Milo, 8, and Finn, 5, with two giant eggs from their grandma's chooks in Breamlea. Picture: Alan Barber

Victorian chook owners have discovered two enormous eggs in their backyard coop, with one weighing well over triple the standard size.

Dianne Backwell said her two young chickens, which she got earlier this year, typically laid one normal size egg per day each and it was “an anomaly” for them to pop out such large ones.

Daryl Backwell with his and his wife Diana's two chooks. Picture: Alan Barber

“They haven’t eaten anything different,” the Breamlea mum said.

“It’s bizarre.”

On average, chicken eggs weigh between 45g to 50g.

The first egg, weighing in at 143g, was laid on May 26 while the 168g egg popped out on May 29.

“My husband came in with this ridiculously sized egg,” Ms Backwell said.

“Then a few days later, he brought it another one.

“I kept thinking of the poor chook.”

It’s not clear whether one hen has laid both eggs.

The largest chicken egg on record in Australia was laid at a farm in Bungaree, about 13km east of Ballarat, and weighed 209g.

Ms Backwell said she might make a quiche with the eggs.

“It will be interesting to see if they have triple yolks,” she said.

Ms Backwell said her grandchildren, Milo, 8, and Finn, 5, loved to visit her chickens when they visit her.

“They love going down to see if (the chickens) have laid any eggs,” she said.

Originally published as Grandma’s cracking find after Breamlea backyard chooks lay mega eggs