For all intents and purposes, brown rice syrup is âemptyâ calories. That is, plenty of energy with virtually no essential nutrients. Bottom Line: Rice syrup contains a lot of energy with almost no essential nutrients. In other words, it is âemptyâ calories like most refined sugars.
An Essex livestock owner claims to have reared the biggest cockerel in the world on a diet of popcorn. Little John - who's gone in to the record books as the world's tallest cockerel. At more than 2ft (26ins) tall the one-year-old Brahma bird, named Little John, terrifies small children.
In 2010, when Matilda the chicken, of Ipswich, England, laid an egg 3 1/2 inches high and 8.3 inches around, a Guinness World Records spokesman told the U.K. news website Metro: The largest hen egg was a five-yolked egg measuring [12.2 inches] around the long axis, [9 inches] around the short and weighing nearly [12 ounces].