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World's Smallest Chicken Egg - about the size of a penny

By Hank Campbell | August 22nd 2011 10:00 PM | Print | E-mail

The Rev. Donnie Russell of West Virginia found a 2.1-centimeter-long egg last month on his farm. It weighs just 3.46 grams, just over a one-tenth of an ounce, and is about the size of a penny.

The chicken that he believes laid the egg is normal sized and the state Department of Agriculture has certified the egg's size. The Guinness Book Of World Records currently lists the smallest recorded chicken egg as 2.7 centimeters.

World's Smallest Chicken Egg Hard To Beat

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Add another. Though have to admit, a PhD stats class makes me shudder ;)

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Anonymous Snowboarder Needs Sn
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Tommaso Dorigo
Hi, the place is one where I can store impressions... Not everybody! Anyway thanks for your comment. I do not understand what MOND has to do with the post though.
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Interna · 2 days ago
Manuel Chaniotakis
Well phrased! The only change I would make to go to "high energies" would be to remove the spectrometer and instead increase the temperature so much that both liquid and solid chocolate...

Electroweak Symmetry And The Chocolate Interaction · 4 days ago
Fred Altieri
And sentiments reiterated by two more robots - Claude: "Final Assessment: This is an effective piece of science communication that demystifies a complex statistical concept by grounding it in...

The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown · 5 days ago

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