I found a mysterious egg in my raised bed - help!

[Mikey]

Birds will eat eggs when stressed, thirsty, or after the calcium. One of my brood did this a handful of times, its important to get in there remove the eggs and replace with something hard that they can't peck. Once they realise its not edible they move on . You'd think a chicken could tell the difference between an egg and a golf ball though.

Which came first the chicken or the golf ball?


Answer : depends which club you use.

[Bill HH]

We used to deal with persistent egg eaters by covering most of the nest entry hole with sacking to make it darker. if that didn't do it then cutting a bit off the top beak (but leaving the bottom) throws their peckinocity off beam. Finally last resort is chicken for lunch.

[Noosner]

By amazing co-incidence, I was in a caff this morning and picked up a National Geographical mag. And here was the pic I saw, in an article about arctic foxes:

[Seagull]

Who's watching Springwatch? They've just done a piece on grass snakes laying eggs in compost heaps!