Round egg: Poultry farmer makes a stunning ‘one in a billion’ discovery
An Australian farmer has found a perfectly round egg laid by one of his chickens.
Fabian Fabbro’s one-in-a-billion discovery came while collecting eggs at his Woodland Valley Farm on the north coast of New South Wales.
Mr Fabbro, whose chickens have laid more than a million eggs in the past five years, was so shocked by the egg’s formation that he decided not to sell it with the rest of his products.
“The shell is beautiful, there are no cracks in it,” he told police ABC.
“There is absolutely no reason other than the rarity and excitement behind it that it hasn’t been put up for sale with the others.”
Fabian Fabbro (pictured) was recently collecting eggs at his Woodland Valley Farm on the NSW north coast when he made the discovery
Mr Fabbro has 2,500 chickens on his farm and although he is not sure which one laid the bulbous chickens, he has managed to keep the number down to a few hundred of his brood.
“She was among 450 other friends, so she has remained anonymous at this point,” he said.
Despite the egg’s incredibly rare shape, Mr. Fabbro’s partner, Jodie, used a vernier scale, an instrument used to measure objects more accurately, to determine if the egg was perfect in shape.
However, the egg was only a few millimeters away from being exactly round.
That didn’t stop Mr Fabbro from praising the “one-in-a-billion” discovery, which he said was perhaps the closest thing to a flawless egg.
The egg (pictured) was laid by one of Mr Fabbro’s chickens and the farmer has managed to reduce the person responsible for laying the spherical specimen to a few hundred.
He isn’t sure what he will do with the egg, as it has 44 days from the time it was laid before it expires, but he considered the opportunity to sell the item to an eager buyer.
Round eggs can sell for about $1,400 online.
The latest discovery concerns the very strangely shaped eggs his chickens have produced over the years.
One of his chickens laid a capsule egg in the shape of a large tablet, while another time he found an egg inside another egg.
Normally, an egg laid in a nest on a cliff is more likely to have an oval shape than eggs laid on lower ground.
According to Australian Eggs, Australian farmers produce 6.68 billion eggs every year.
Although Mr Fabbro’s partner (pictured right), Jodie, discovered the egg was just a few millimeters away from being perfectly round, Mr Fabbro said the shape of the egg was incredible.