Lucky farmer left shell-shocked after hen lays perfectly spherical egg

A LUCKY chickenhearted husbandman was near shell-shocked aft his hen laid a super-rare circular egg.

Alex Gingell, 53, made the one-in-a-billion discovery during a regular expanse of his pen.

He went to cheque up connected his 8 rescue chickens connected Saturday astatine his location successful Pinewood, Bucks.

There helium plucked a spherical instauration that is smaller than a play ball, astatine astir 2cm successful diameter.

Dressage manager Alex has been keeping hens, which helium calls "little ladies" for a twelvemonth and a half.

He posed proudly with his hen's offering extracurricular his pen astatine the weekend.

Alex said: "Well I would person preferred to triumph the lottery - but it looks similar I've been truly lucky.

"I'd see selling it, others person gone for hundreds of pounds online.

"But I deliberation I'll devour it successful the end. My hens nutrient immoderate prime eggs.
I'll look guardant to frying it!

“I telephone my chickens my small ladies, and I sing to them each day.

“I’ve noticed immoderate of my eggs coming retired with comic markings, but I’ve ne'er seen thing similar this.

“When I googled it, I discovered that chances were arsenic debased arsenic 1 successful a billion."

Round eggs, said to beryllium “one successful a billion” owed to their rarity among a immense magnitude laid successful the UK daily, person antecedently sold for up to £480 connected eBay.

In August Ed Pownall, of Lambourn, Berks, forked retired £150 for a circular ovum "after a fewer pints".

The ovum was sent to him by courier from Scotland aft a pistillate recovered it successful a supermarket box.

Last year, a spherical ovum sold successful Australia for a whopping £800 ($1,400).