China has been in our food news quite a bit lately, and here we are again.
Let's turn our attention to a soft-shelled egg laid by a hen in China in the shape of a figure eight.
It happened on a chicken farm in Sijiazhuang, northern China’s Hebei Province.
The story begins when one night, Mrs. Dong heard some strange noises coming from her hen house.
“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.
Mrs. Dong (please keep the jokes to a minimum) is saving the egg in a special box and has refused to eat or sell it.
It may well end up as precious as a family heirloom, passed from one generation of chicken farmers to another.
“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.
