Chicken who laid baseball-sized egg doing well, owners say

A hen who laid an egg that's heavier than a baseball is doing well, according to her owners in Echo Bay, Ont.

The egg made national news earlier this week for weighing in at 180 grams,more than three times the weight of a normal large chicken egg.

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

Kirsti and Dennis Goslow had planned to crack open their hen's egg to see what's inside, butsaid they're holding offafter they werecontacted by Discovery Canada.

Thetelevision channel plans to visit next week to have the egg x-rayed bya local veterinarian.

'One of the older girls' laid the egg

Kirsti Goslow told CBC Newsshe also now believes she knows which chickenmight have laid the egg.

"I think it's one of the black ones," she said, adding that this particular hen didn't have a name.

"She's acting a little different, and she is one of the older girls," Goslow said. "So we're keeping a close eye on her to make sure she's going to be okay."

Goslow said the hen is eating and walking around.

"But she'll sit and then her tail will droop a little bit. So you know that something's going on," she said.

Goslow saidthey've given the hen a multivitamin, apple cider vinegar, and garlic to perk her up.