Chicken in Echo Bay, Ont. lays massive 180 gram egg

A hobby farmer near Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.made a surprising discovery last week when he went to collect his chicken's eggs.

One of Dennis Goslow'shens has laid an egg that is 180 grams. That's heavier than a major league baseball and the size of a large apple.

"[The egg]seems to be a little bit warped," Goslow said from his home in Echo Bay, Ont. "You can imagine,the poor thing coming out. It looks like an egg, but it's a little rough."

"It was warm when I picked it up," he said.

ACanadian record

Goslowtold CBC News he's never seen a chicken egg this big in his life.

In 2009, a chicken in the Ottawa area made newswhen it laid an egg that was 143 grams. At 180 grams, Goslow's eggmight be the heavieston Canadian record.

Unfortunately, there's no World Record title in the cards.

The recordfor theheaviest chicken egg in the world was reportedly laid by a hen in New Jersey, USA in 1956. That egg was 454 grams.

Is there an egg inside the egg?

Goslow, who raises a few dozen chickensin his backyard, saidhe isn't sure which one of hishens laid the egg.

"I was looking for the one that didn't have any butt," he said. "When I was in there it seemed like one chicken was all light and happy."

I was looking for [a chicken] that didn't have any butt.- Dennis Goslow, hobby farmer

Goslowsaidhe is still waiting to decide what to do with the egg, but he thinks he might crack it open to see if there is another egg inside of it.

He said this particular henmight have had trouble pushing out the first egg, so another one could have formed around it.

Since some of hischickens are older, it's possible that one of the hens developed anissueproducing eggs, he said.

'They're my babies'

Most farmers will usually slaughter their chickens when they reach two years old, as their egg quality tends to decrease.

ButGoslowsaid he wouldn't consider slaughtering his own hens.

"I myself can't do that. They're my babies," he said.

"They get sick or whatever, I'll take [care of]them. I've got two of them sleeping in my office in a cage at night."

Click here to listen to Dennis Goslow's interview on CBC'snorthern Ontario afternoon show Up North.