Unique egg reveals double surprise

By Mark Ribble

Egg-sactly what did you expect?

Eugene the egg was finally cracked on Wednesday, January 25 at Simpson Orchards. The giant egg, which was just five grams off the Canadian record, was laid a couple of weeks ago by an ISA Brown hen that has yet to be identified.

Simpson’s owners Corrie and Jason Adamson vowed to break the egg open at a later date when The Sun ran the original photo in the January 11 issue.

They did a Facebook Live event on the 25th as the anticipation grew as to just what was inside the giant egg.

When it was finally opened, a regular size yolk and lots of egg white emerged, but there was also another component — a whole brown egg intact — inside the giant shell.

Corrie was quick to crack open the second egg, commenting that the shell on that one was a lit- tle tough, and it was just a regular egg inside.

“We had a feeling that there was something like that inside,” said Corrie. “I shook it a couple of times and it felt different.”

As for the poor chicken that laid the egg, Jason says he’s not been able to identify the hen among their flock of about 100 birds.

“There is one that’s moving a little different than the others, but I can’t say for sure that’s why it’s walking funny,” he said. “We did get a couple of big eggs since this one was laid, but nothing close to it.”

The couple were quick to name the egg “Eugene” and give it a special place in the cooler for all to see. They fielded calls from all over, including Texas and other parts of Canada.

When asked what they’d do with Eugene now that it was open, Jason said he’d scramble both eggs and eat half.

“I’ll give the other half to the dog,” he laughed.

Jason and Corrie Adamson cracking open their giant egg at Simpson Orchards on January 25 with help from their son, Engel. Sun photo