{"id":980,"date":"2011-07-20T02:02:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2011-07-20T02:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:03:00","slug":"some-real-big-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Some Real Big Eggs."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I notice in the Daily News [Chicago] of April 2 an Associated Press report from Salt Lake City, saying that Elmar Apeigren of that place has a hen that laid an egg 8 1-16 inches in circumfernce, the egg being on exhibition there. I have a hen, a rose comb Plymouth Rock, that lays an egg much larger than that, and has for three years. I have on hand one of her eggs at the present time measuring 8 1-4 inches in circumstances transverscely and 10 inches around lenthwise and weighing five and one-half ounces. I have noticed a great many reports of large eggs, but I fully believe that this hen is the champion large egg layer of the world today. She lays these eggs every other day or every third day and about thirty a season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I succeeded in hatching one this spring and the chick was 1 week old yesterday, the size of a four weeks chick. In the three years I have only found two of these eggs that contained two yolks.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I notice in the Daily News [Chicago] of April 2 an Associated Press report from Salt Lake City, saying that Elmar Apeigren of that place has a hen that laid an egg 8 1-16 inches in circumfernce, the egg being on exhibition there. I have a hen, a rose comb Plymouth Rock, that lays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}