FOR a fleeting moment, farmer Martin Powell thought an emu had wandered into his chicken coop.
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But he soon unscrambled his mind and came to the realisation this remarkable egg was merely laid by an unremarkable hen.
Tipping the scales at a whopping 163 grams, the egg is about three times larger than the average goog.
The discovery was made on Thursday evening when Mr Powell went to collect the day’s eggs from his four hens.
“I looked in there and thought ‘there’s been a visitor in here today, what could have laid that?’,” he said.
“But as the yard is completely sealed and the gate was locked, there was no way anything could have got in.”
Mr Powell suspects the bird responsible for the gigantic goog was one of three Australorp hens acquired in just the last few weeks.
The egg falls someway short of the world’s largest, which is credited to an egg laid in China that weighed 201 grams in 2009.
Nevertheless, University of New England professor of animal science Dr Paul Iji said it was undoubtedly an extraordinary specimen.
“We know there are some eggs that are double yolkers that weigh over 100 grams, but we could have a case of a triple-yolker here,” he said.
Mr Powell, who runs a cattle farm at Loomberah, said he was looking forward to cracking the egg in the coming days and seeing just how many yolks were inside.