Perfectly formed egg found inside egg

[Althalus]

A cook has cracked open a hen's egg to find another perfectly formed egg inside.

Ann Cockcroft, 56, says she was making scrambled eggs for workers at a branch of Waitrose in Gosport, Hampshire, when she made the discovery.

The smaller egg measures 3cm in length - around a quarter of the size of the egg it came in, which also had a yolk.

Mrs Cockcroft said: "I have never seen anything like it. You expect to get the odd double yolk, but to find a whole egg inside another one really is just incredible."

Branch manager Tony Probert, who has kept the undamaged miniature egg in his office, said: "We were all astounded."

The egg, produced by a free-range Colombian Blacktail hen, came from supplier Stonegate which delivers 27 million eggs a week. Tony Sayer, a business account manager at Wiltshire-based Stonegate, explained how the egg within an egg was created.Annanova