(Barbados Nation) First, there were the giant pawpaws. Then came the 26-pound yams followed by the 24-pound sweet potatoes.
Within one week, farmers from St Philip to St Lucy have been reporting unusually large crops from their fields or small plots, causing many a Barbadian to ponder if something extraordinary is in the air . . . or perhaps in the ground.
The latest person to get a “big” surprise was Karen Springer of Content, St Lucy.
Hers came not from the earth, but the fowl.
She was shocked last Tuesday afternoon to find that one of her chickens had laid an egg weighing eight ounces – about four times the size of a regular egg.
“For the past three years I have been raising chickens, and it’s the first time I have seen an egg that big.
I am really surprised and excited,” she told the SUNDAY SUN.
Assisted the hen “I noticed that one of the chickens was looking a bit uncomfortable from Tuesday morning and when I investigated . . . the chicken was having a little trouble laying her eggs. I tried to assist, and after a while, to my surprise, a large, unusual egg appeared.”
Springer said she was not sure what she would do with it.
