The world’s champion egg-layer is not a hen. It is a duck! CampbellClarke, an Australian duck, laid 369 eggs in 365 days. A duck egg is twice as rich in food value as a hen’s egg, but because of its strong flavour it is not used.
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Southland Times, Issue 23538, 18 June 1938, Page 19
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