Small but perfectly formed

A BED-AND-BREAKFAST owner who thinks he has found the world’s smallest hen’s egg took it in his pocket to show friends at the pub.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Nov 2012, 08:13 BST

Paul Rae, 52, found the 20p piece-sized egg on Sunday morning alongside three normal-sized ones in his henhouse at the business he runs with his wife Margaret in Humshaugh, Northumberland.

He is hoping to get confirmation that his is the smallest egg, beating a previous claim which weighed 7.3g, as his is 5g, 2.5cm high and 2cm across.

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Mr Rae, a former catering manager on oil rigs, said: “After I found it I had a quick look online then I took it to the pub.

“I carried it in my pocket. My friends said I should get in touch with the Guinness Book of Records.”

The couple, who run a restaurant and bed-and-breakfast from 200-year-old Walwick Farm, have no idea which of their four Lohmann Brown hens laid the egg.

Mr Rae said:“They have been laying normal eggs and then all of a sudden this tiny one came out.”

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