‘One in a billion’ spherical egg set for charity auction

A husbandman who recovered a uncommon spherical ovum has confirmed it volition beryllium sold astatine auction successful 2 months’ clip but she is unsure it volition marque anyone’s breakfast.

Ali Greene of Fenton Farm successful Devon deed the headlines this week aft uncovering a spherical hen’s ovum – which immoderate reports assertion is simply a “one successful a billion” occurrence.

Despite moving astatine the workplace for 3 years and handling astir 30,000 eggs each week, the 57-year-old said she had ne'er seen a ammunition arsenic circular arsenic her astir caller find.

“I’m everlastingly going to beryllium known present arsenic the ovum woman,” Ms Green, who lives successful adjacent Westleigh, told the PA quality agency.

“When I’m dormant radical volition Google ’round egg’ and they’re going to spot my look – which is not thing that I ever envisaged.”

The “very, precise evidently round”, satsuma-sized ovum volition spell to auction connected March 18 with Bearnes Hampton Littlewood Auctioneers, with proceeds from the merchantability going to Devon Rape Crisis – a section foundation wherever Ms Greene volunteers.

Ms Greene said it is being kept successful brackish to sphere it, but she expects her egg’s purchaser is improbable to devour it.

“Anybody who’s going to bargain thing similar that is astir apt purely for the rarity of it – I find different one, I volition smash it due to the fact that it makes excavation rarer,” Ms Greene said.

“You’d person it connected a plinth, astir apt … but I person nary thought – idiosyncratic mightiness bargain it and conscionable instrumentality it successful an omelette, who knows?”

A akin egg, recovered by a shopper successful a supermarket successful Ayr, Scotland, was sold astatine auction for £200 past year.

It is apt the ovum volition alternatively beryllium drained of its yolk truthful lone the ammunition remains – a process known arsenic blowing.

Ms Greene said she hopes it is bought by idiosyncratic who is “passionate astir the charity”.

“I’ll beryllium determination astatine the auction and hopefully (it will) spell for much than a tenner,” she added.

“If that’s the case, I deliberation I’ll bargain it myself and springiness the foundation a donation, and past conscionable person it connected a plinth for myself.”