Digging the garden 🥚

[Hybrid21]

I was lightly digging the garden the other day and came across a buried chicken egg 😲

It was whole and actually had the red egg stamp on it ?

Anyone came across this before or any ideas ?

 

[Bernard Foy]

1 hour ago, Hybrid21 said:

I was lightly digging the garden the other day and came across a buried chicken egg 😲

It was whole and actually had the red egg stamp on it ?

Anyone came across this before or any ideas ?

 

Did Edwina live next door 🤣😂

[Stivino]

Yeah man, I really dig my garden, peace out brother.

[Bper]

"Eggs are going up again."

"That’ll surprise a few chickens."😅

It used to be a red stamped egg meant a better egg don't know if this still happens.

[Cyker]

YES!!!! We have had this too!!!  

Our best guess is foxes, as we have bazillions of them round here (As we seem to be the only house without a dog or cat, all of the buggers like to go into our garden at night!) but foxes aren't known for squirrel-like behaviour so it's not a great theory...

For all I know it could be a particularly large and mentally-challenged squirrel mistaking it for a nut??

But also where the heck did they get the egg from and how did they bury it intact without cracking it!

[Rhymes with Paris]

25 minutes ago, Cyker said:

But also where the heck did they get the egg from and how did they bury it intact without cracking it!

Probably Sainsbury's and hard boiled it first.

I often see delinquent looking squirrels hanging round the Sainsbury's car park here.

Most of 'em seem to have slammed saxos with splayed rear wheels.

[Hybrid21]

Speaking to a neighbour and they think it's been a crow 🤔

Apparently they steal eggs from outside a restaurant up the road and bury them in gardens 🤔

[Eddie G]

Easter Bunny way too early and nabbed first egg it found to hide 🤔😁

[Roy124]

Buy our home, you'll find egg shells everywhere.  We compost them 😄

Few years ago we gave one of our dogs a raw egg.  She bit it and of course it burst.  Next one she made a hole in the top and got the egg out without making any mess. 

[Rhymes with Paris]

You can tell when they are getting really skilled up when they peel a Jaffa without separating the segments.

 

[Bernard Foy]

6 hours ago, Cyker said:

YES!!!! We have had this too!!!  

Our best guess is foxes, as we have bazillions of them round here (As we seem to be the only house without a dog or cat, all of the buggers like to go into our garden at night!) but foxes aren't known for squirrel-like behaviour so it's not a great theory...

For all I know it could be a particularly large and mentally-challenged squirrel mistaking it for a nut??

But also where the heck did they get the egg from and how did they bury it intact without cracking it!

Having come from a rural background, long before foxes became “city dwellers” I know that foxes will eat raw eggs. Maybe they now require them cooked to order.

[Hybrid21]

14 hours ago, Roy124 said:

Buy our home, you'll find egg shells everywhere.  We compost them 😄

Few years ago we gave one of our dogs a raw egg.  She bit it and of course it burst.  Next one she made a hole in the top and got the egg out without making any mess. 

Hi Roy, years ago we had a Springer spaniel and she would carry a raw egg without bursting it, seemed to know that it was fragile 👍

She could also catch a live pheasant and bring it to me very much alive with not a mark on it 👍