Agroaldea
A bird from the ecological farm La Atalaya in Lanzarote lays an egg of 213 grams, which triples the maximum size sold in the markets.
The owner of the organic chicken farm La Atalaya, Jose Martinez, has not overcome the surprise when picking up, how do you do every day, a giant egg that is possibly one of the largest in the world known so far.
According to the precision scale you have on your farm to classify the eggs, The specimen weighed a total of 213 grams, which comes to almost three eggs of the maximum size that is used for the sale of eggs.
José Martínez says he does not know which of his hens has been able to lay this colossal egg. “As the hens are loose we do not know for now what has been, although it is within the group of those that are currently in full production and that have a year of life”.
Searching the internet for the world's largest chicken eggs, we read that in February 2012 a chicken in Cuba, also from an organic farm, was able to lay an egg 245 grams. A year earlier, also on the Caribbean island, another specimen of 230 grams.
However, It was in Armenia in December 2009 when it was ensured that an egg weighed 300 grams although on that occasion the discovery occurred inside the hen when its owners were going to make a broth with the bird. Already in Spain in November of last year an egg of 195 grams in the Galician town of O'Terrón.
To get an idea of the achievement of the rabbit hutch, It should be noted that the eggs are classified by size. The M, are the ones that weigh between the 53 and 63 grams, the L, between the 63 and 73 grams and the XL that goes from the 73 grams, but rarely exceeds 100 grams.
Martínez points out that his hens have the ecological guarantee seal. “They only consume organic products that we plant on our land and organically prepared feed that we buy from a specialized store”.
The discovery did not last long, since after the caliber and weighing the tremendous egg slipped in an oversight and shattered. “It was after weighing it although luckily we were able to take a picture of the 213 grams on the scale”, points out with certain magua Jose Martinez.
In addition to the chicken farm, José Martínez also produces cheese and yoghurts in a cheese factory that in the 2006 was the first in the Canary Islands to obtain organic certification.
In addition to the goats for the production of dairy products, breed animals (lambs, piglets and baifos) also with organic food that sells, after slaughtering them in the insular slaughterhouse, in a butcher shop on the island.