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Digging Up Potatoes.... found an EGG!!
JanTex5952
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Hi Everyone
We have had an allotment for over 25 years and while we were digging the potatoes up last week, we dug up a perfectly formed, whole, big white egg, that looked to us like a Duck egg?? Why would it be there quite DEEP in out potatoes?
Our friends on the allotments below also had a few too??
We have a few people with hens in very good secure cages on the allotments but the eggs that have been found seem to look like DUCK eggs rather than hens??
We have all been confused by this as it's never happened before?
Can anyone shine any light on the situation please?
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Could it be a fox stealing duck eggs somewhere? They bury eggs.
Exactly the same happened to me about a year ago, I found a large egg in one of the veg beds in my garden
a few weeks later I found a pigs trotter, so had to assume it was a fox with squirrel tendencies. Luckily it's stopped leaving presents since
Yes, it's a fox - they cache food and come back for it later.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks everyone, we assumed it would be a fox, but as there are on ducks on our allotment, wondered how far it had been carried too. It done really well to get it there without breaking it too!!
Clever fox!!
We found an egg in a plant pot by our old pond last year. We had high fences though. Do foxes climb fences?
I also saw a frog with its legs stuck in the air in the pond. It looked like its body was inside something. I have a photo somewhere. Wasn't sure whether it was just having fun with another frog in a weird position or a snake had it. Do snakes swim?
are you sure it's not a grass snake egg?
I've come across them in my garden from time to time
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
MayLane they do indeed jump very high and can scale our 6ft fence with ease.
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Maylane - sounds as if your frog was being eaten by a grass snake - I was able to get a photo of this happening in our pond a couple of years ago. They eat them head first.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've just dug up an egg in my raised bed! Question is could I incubate it and grow whatever it is...? I'm assuming it won't be a crocodile...
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I expect it was stolen from someone's chicken coop and buried there for later by a fox.
It won't grow into anything ... it's likely to be addled (rotten) and if you break it you'll experience a real stinky smell of sulpherous rotten egg.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.