Chicken egg thief?
Scarlet Offline
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I haven't kept chickens for a few years.
I have no neighbours that live nearby that keep chickens either.

Yesterday I found a chickens egg in the lawn buried by a tree. It looked like there was a little hole made for it and it had been revealed by strimming the grass in that area.

I was a bit curious and cracked it open - just to smell Big Grin as I couldn't believe it had laid there to rest for a few years. It was fresh!

So just this morning I'm clearing a patch of long grass and crap from an area where I want to put my sweet peas....and there's another one?!!

Answers on a postcard please.....




How far will a fox carry an egg?
   
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Its probably the seed of an Egg plant. Smile
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Next daft remark - do they have any little lions stamped on them?

and Are your boys home

and..................it'll soon be Easter. Smile
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Two in two days??

This is a revelation - I wonder if they are growing hereBig Grin
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No stamps- no boys here either.

This second egg looks like a marans egg - doesn't show well on the photo. It's quite dark.
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I had a little DuckDuck and you're not the only one - apparently squirrels bury hen's eggs and foxes.
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Moth Offline
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(28-03-2021, 01:46 PM)Veggie Wrote: I had a little DuckDuck and you're not the only one - apparently squirrels bury hen's eggs and foxes.

What, the whole fox?
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished  – Lao Tzu
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(28-03-2021, 02:33 PM)Moth Wrote:
(28-03-2021, 01:46 PM)Veggie Wrote: I had a little DuckDuck and you're not the only one - apparently squirrels bury hen's eggs and foxes.

What, the whole fox?

Some how Moth, I don't think there will be any foxes buried in the garden, if Scarlet managed to find the eggs shourly even she would have noticed signs that would be left, if a squirrel had buried one!
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I should have known that my "foxes" afterthought would fall fowl of someone.Wink
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[Yesterday I found a chickens egg in the lawn buried by a tree. It looked like there was a little hole made for it and it had been revealed by strimming the grass in that area.]

Didn’t know trees buried eggs Scarlet.
Any further forward with the mystery?
West of Scotland
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