Jasper and the giant egg

Once upon a time a young boy named Jasper Lawrence collected an egg from the chook house and it was a LOT bigger than all the other eggs.

In fact it was so big that he rushed into his dad’s Tunbridge home and found some scales to check its weight.

The egg weighed 118g, compared to an average supermarket egg of around 54g or 67g for a jumbo egg.

If you had a carton of Jasper’s giant eggs it would be 1.5kg of eggs!

Dad Jason said he has a mixture of hens in his flock, including New Hampshires, Isa Browns, Hylines and Australorps, and he’s not sure which of the girls it came from, although he suspects a New Hampshire or Australorp.

“I’ve had one or two even bigger but there’s a way to go to match the Australian record of 207g or the world record of 454g,” he said.

“My guess it was from either a New Hampshire or an Australorp, the older they get the bigger their eggs get.”

While the majority of Australians are battling an egg shortage and chooks that have stopped laying in the short winter days, Jason is tricking his birds by keeping the lights on later in the chook house, and they’re still laying.

Sitting in an egg carton with a selection of eggs, Jasper’s egg was by far the standout, and he couldn’t wait to crack it.

Unsurprisingly it was a double-yolker.

“I’m going to make an omelette with that for my breakfast,” Jasper said.

Jason and Jasper would love to know if anyone has collected a bigger egg.

Let Tas Country know if you have!