I’m having a bit of trouble with the superstitious behaviour in this article. They seem to be saying that if you get a chook that lays massive eggs you shouldn’t thank your lucky stars and get on with making supersized omelettes, you should just quickly sell it and do your washing.
Usually superstitions have some sort of twisted yet discernible logic to them, this one I just don’t get at all!
The unluckiest one in the entire story was the poor chook. Imagine what it went through to lay half pound eggs. An average egg is 2oz or 57g. Half a pound is just under 230g, ouch!
I wonder if the eggs were proportionally larger or just the same size as normal and extra heavy? Did they give any of these freak eggs further investigation? I wonder what caused them to be so large.
Perhaps a closer look might have shown that they were giving away the chook that laid the golden egg! Was the first bidder the ‘wise womans’ agent!?