A family has beaten odds of a billion to one after their chicken laid a perfectly spherical egg. Annabel Mulcahy was stunned when she discovered the fully round egg at her home in Brize Norton over the weekend.
Mrs Mulcahy has kept chickens for the last 20 years, with her West Oxfordshire family rescuing more in recent years as her children started to take more of an interest in the chickens. Twinskie – named by one of Mrs Mulcahy’s daughters – laid the unique egg to the family's utter amazement.
The mother said: “On Saturday morning, I opened the nesting box and it was there, a perfect circle. I was Googling it and was quoted that it’s a one in a billion. It’s really weird, I had to a double take. I can roll it on the table like a marble.”
