EGGS-TRAORDINARY?: The free range egg which allegedly contained eight yolks.
A Waikato woman's eggs-traordinary find - an eight-yolker egg - has been revealed to be a hoax.
This picture was sent in to The Press, allegedly showing eight yolks found inside the free range egg.
The woman, known only as Roberta, claimed she got the "surprise of her life" when she discovered that all eight yolks came from the same egg.
Roberta had said she was making scrambled eggs for her grandson, Jonathan, when she made the discovery.
It has been revealed the photograph was a hoax, sent in by a television entertainment show.
Vanessa Wintle, Egg Producers' Federation of New Zealand (Inc) said while double-yolked eggs were common, to find eight would be ``pretty exceptional''.
Wintle said one of her colleagues in the egg industry - who had worked both in the United Kingdon and New Zealand - had only ever heard of this phenomenon three times in her entire career.
Multiple-yolk eggs occur when the hen's ovulation cycle occurs more rapidly than usual, or when one yolk becomes joined with another yolk.
''As we understand, the greatest number of yolks ever found in an egg was nine - so this egg isn't quite there!'' Wintle said.
Wintle said it is estimated that one in a thousand eggs were double-yolkers.
/By SHAHRA WALSH - The Press
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