Cracking discovery as woman opens egg to find another one inside it

15th February 2008
Daily Mail

A woman was shell shocked after she cracked an egg - and found another one inside it.


Fran Vincent, 54, made the eggs-traordinary discovery when she opened the 5.50z free range egg to make a cake.

She was astonished to find a smaller egg - perfectly intact - inside the larger 3.5ins one, which she had bought from a supermarket.

Fran, a factory worker from Seaton, Devon, said: "I thought it looked a bit big - I thought it might have been a duck egg at first.

"I cracked it open and out came the white and yolk but inside was another egg in its shell. I have never seen anything like it before - they're almost like twins."




Egg-cellent: Fran Vincent shows her rare discovery



David Lanning, of Lloyd Maunder poultry firm, said it was "extremely rare" for a double egg to reach a customer.

He said: "An incongruity like this would normally be picked up during the checking phase at the farm.

"As it was being formed it passed down through the hen's oviduct - the passage from the ovaries to the outside of the body - where the shell is made.

"In young hens, ovulating can be quite irregular. The hen has obviously ovulated quickly twice. The second egg has caught up with the first and the shell has formed around the two of them.

"It's more common with young hens. It's unusual and doesn't happen that often. But it is extremely rare for it to reach the shop shelf."



The smaller egg, found intact, was inside the larger one measuring 3.5 inches.

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