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Published: November 26, 2009 10:07 pm    print this story  

Giant egg a mystery

By the Associated Press

It’s a mystery, but not a hardboiled one: Sherman Farley spotted a giant egg while hunting this week. It weighs 4.5 pounds and is 18 inches in diameter.

State naturalist Jim Phillips says there’s no animal native to the state that lays eggs that big.

Bill Pepper, who owns Benedict Haid Farm nearby, suspects it’s an ostrich egg. Pepper’s farm has one emu and seven ostriches.

But the egg was found more than three miles from his farm, and none of his birds has gone missing.

Farley plans to keep it as a souvenir, although he’d still like to know what it is.

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