article_snippet.sent: It wouldn’t make much of a breakfast, but a 2.1cm egg laid in Somerset could give a schoolgirl and a schoolgirl pet hens a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
article_snippet.sent: Shannon Hayes, 12, believes one of Shannon Hayes, 12 has laid a 2.1cm egg laid in Somerset.
article_snippet.sent: The tiny egg, which was laid in Capel Iwan, Carmarthenshire, is smaller than a five pence piece, pictured .
article_snippet.sent: a schoolgirl keeps seven hens at a schoolgirl family home in Capel Iwan, Carmarthenshire, but a schoolgirl is not sure which laid a 2.1cm egg laid in Somerset.
article_snippet.sent: Shannon Hayes spotted a 2.1cm egg laid in Somerset among the ordinary-sized eggs in Shannon Hayes hen coop.
article_snippet.sent: Fearful of a 2.1cm egg laid in Somerset being crushed, Shannon Hayes immediately took a 2.1cm egg laid in Somerset into the house to be measured.
article_snippet.sent: In 2011, an American farmer claimed an American farmer had laid a 2.1cm egg laid in Somerset, measuring 2.1cm long.
article_snippet.sent: That was beaten in 2014 by an egg one millimetre smaller laid in Somerset by a hen called Muffin.
article_snippet.sent: Shannon Hayes believes that Shannon Hayes egg, which measures just 1.8cm in length is 3mm smaller than the current record .
highlights_snippet.sent: Shannon Hayes spotted the tiny egg at Shannon Hayes home in Carmarthenshire .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Shannon Hayes rescued the tiny egg fearing the tiny egg was going to be crushed by the regular eggs .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The 12-year-old measured the tiny egg and discovered the tiny egg was just 1.9cm long .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: the tiny egg is believed the previous record holder was a 2.1cm egg laid in Somerset .