it measures four inches long, eight inches round and weighs a hefty 7.4oz.
Farmer’s wife Julie Hewitt, 31, said: “We were absolutely astonished. It’s more than twice the weight of a goose egg.”
She and hubby David, 35, collect 20,000 eggs every day from the 30,000 chickens they keep on their Rosedown farm near St Wenn in Cornwall.
Mum-of-four Julie added: “David has been working with chickens all his life so I knew the egg was something incredible when he ran out the barn screaming, ‘Look at the size of this’.
“It’s perfect and has a really hard shell.”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest ever egg was laid by a Black Minorca hen in England in 1896 and weighed nearly 12oz.
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