Kathleen Wilkie was minding her son’s Endeavour Hills home when she discovered that one of his Rhode Island red chooks had laid two whopping big eggs.KATHLEEN and John Wilkie were completely scrambled recently when they discovered their son’s chook had laid two big eggs.
The eggs, one 69mm by 50mm and the other 67mm by 55mm, are much bigger than the average size egg that normally measures 58mm by 43mm.
The retired couple had been minding their son Chris’ 10 chooks at his Endeavour Hills home when they discovered the eggs.
Mrs Wilkie, who grew up on a farm at Warragul, said her family had always loved poultry and animals.
Her aunt and uncle had a poultry farm and she said she had never bought eggs from the supermarket in her life.
“I have had a lot to do with eggs and have seen many eggs over my life,” she said.
“When I saw them I thought ‘my gosh, they are big’.
“I really want to break it and see if it has a triple yolk but John said: ‘Don’t you dare’.
“They do not seem that big but when you compare them to a normal size egg you realise,” she said.
Mrs Wilkie, 66, said the Rhode Island red ate normal kitchen scraps, grass cuttings, laying pallets and dried bread.
The eager cooker also admitted that she had her eye on the eggs to make a cake.
“Too right I have my eye on the eggs.
“I do a lot of cooking and I think they could make good scrambled eggs.
“They won’t be going to waste,” she said.
