Cheshire chicken lays giant egg

A chicken from Alderley Edge in Cheshire has laid an egg three times the average size.

Paxo the chicken's owner, Peter Marland, said a normal egg weighs a couple of ounces, but this one weighs a cracking 6.1 oz.

"I measured it round the middle and it's seven-and-three-quarter inches (19.7cm), one of the others was two-and-three-quarter inches (7cm)."

"I can't explain it, but it's egg-citing," he said.