Chinese hen lays a very strange egg - PHOTO

It happened on a chicken farm in Sijiazhuang, northern China’s Hebei Province. One night, Mrs. Dong heard some unusual sounds coming from her hen house, but she didn’t put two and two together until the next morning.

“I had never heard anything like it before. When I approached, she stopped making the noise but as soon as I left, she started again. The next morning, I was so surprised to find the weird-shaped egg in the hen’s cage,” she said.

The egg has become another local “wonder of the world” so to speak, as neighbors gather from all around to view this egg with their own eyes. Mrs. Dong keeps the egg preserved in a special box and has refused to eat or sell it.

It may well end up as precious as a family heirloom, bequeathed from one generation of chicken farmers to another.

Even given the scientific explanation for this strange occurrence  and the fact that sometimes foods come in some very weird shapes, this egg  remains a very odd phenomenon.

“It’s very rare to see such an egg… This is the result of a lack of calcium in the hen’s diet which has prevented it from creating a hard shell,” states Professor Wu Yuefeng of Hebei University’s Life Science department.

One can only wonder about different shapes. Will there ever be a square-shaped egg? Star-shaped? Who can even speculate? Just when you think you know what things look like, Mother Nature whams you with something like this!

What do YOU think?


/Weird Asia News/

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