Chicken owner surprised by oddly-shaped egg

Carol Chaplin wondered exactly what she had come across when she found an oddly-shaped egg laid by her hen this week. The nameless hen, one of four former battery hens Chaplin owns, was already known to her for its strange antics.



She said that in hot weather, if her goat, Robert "had a pee", the hen would stand underneath him to cool off. Ironically the urine was generally warmer than the outside weather. Chaplin, who lives at the Milford Huts, near Temuka in New Zealand, said that while the odd chicken had some strange habits, this was the first time she had ever laid such an strange-looking egg.



"I'd love to have seen her face when she tried to do it," Chaplin said. Chaplin said the chicken had always exhibited psychological issues. "She's different, she's got head problems." But the hen still earns her keep, being the only one of the quartet still laying. The other three used to lay, but have stopped in the year since Chaplin has had them.



Chaplin keeps the chickens as pets, and said she planned on getting a couple more. As to the future of the strange egg, that is uncertain. Chaplin does not know what to do with it. She said it was "no good putting it in a glass case", as it would probably dehydrate in the end. She had seen "nothing like it before," and will see "nothing like it ever again, hopefully".

With short video.