Giant egg is a cracker!

Thursday 20th March 2008, 12:00AM GMT.

A CHICKEN has taken the idea of giving giant eggs at Easter a bit too literally.

On Tuesday the unnamed chicken at the Poplars Tea Room, St Brelade, laid an egg which is two and a half times the size of a normal egg.

Gill Devon from the tea room said the egg, which weighed 124g compared to a 54g normal egg, is expected to have a double yolk and will be made into a frittata over the weekend.


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