A popular chicken hatching program at Overnewton College is going to take some serious beating after an egg-laying effort earlier this year.
The school’s popular maintenance man, Tony Desira, scoffed at a News Limited story last week about a chicken at Kalorama that laid an egg weighing 109 grams.
The eggs’ owners thought it could be a Victorian record, but Tony laughed it off as mere “chicken feed”.
He said one of the college’s chickens produced an even heavier egg, which weighed in at 113 grams, in August.
“You could get bigger, but it would be harder for her to lay it,” he laughed.
“It’s the biggest one I’ve seen … I’ve been breeding chooks for over 30 years.”
The chicken that laid the famous egg was hatched by junior school students at Overnewton back in May last year.
Once chickens grow to a certain size, Tony takes them home to his chicken farm in Balliang East, where they live out the rest of their lives happily laying eggs, which are then sold on to locals.
Tony has up to 40 chickens at his home at any given time, a mix of roosters and hens.
