As Diane Wheeler cracked open the produce from her own farm she was not expecting anything out of the ordinary.

“I was cooking a cake, and getting the eggs ready,” Mrs Wheeler said.

“The first egg I picked up to use was just a medium-sized egg, nothing significant about it.

“I cracked it out on to a saucer, and to my amazement, there was three yolks.

“I have used many eggs in my life, but that is the first time I have ever seen a triple-yolked egg.”

The woman who has lived her whole life on the land took photographs as a record.

“No, I didn’t put it in the cake, I kept it to show my family… and I also kept the shell.” she said.

Eggs with two yolks - dubbed ‘double-yolkers’ - have not been an uncommon sight during Mrs Wheeler’s more than six decades of experience with eggs, but the upsized version caused a stir.

The odds of a double yolker are, but the British Egg Information Service puts it at 1/1000. A triple-yolker explodes to one in 25 million.