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22-05-2009, 03:35 PM
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| | | Chicken egg?
Is this a chicken egg? 
I found it in my garden. It looks like one. A bit small. But could it be something else? |
22-05-2009, 03:56 PM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
I would guess so. If it's smaller than a normal chicken egg it could well be a banty hen egg. Either that when chickens lay their 1st or last ever egg it can sometimes be really small. I have seen them the size of quail eggs. |
22-05-2009, 05:05 PM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
Looks like Pheasant too. |
22-05-2009, 09:23 PM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
Pheasants eggs are more of an olive green colour. |
22-05-2009, 09:33 PM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
Could be that some kids have been throwing eggs, it's happened around my village. Just wish they would throw some T-bone steaks too 
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22-05-2009, 09:40 PM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
It could be magpies getting into a bantam's run and stealing the eggs, but not being able to carry them far before dropping them. We had that happen when we used to live next door to someone who kept bantams.
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22-05-2009, 09:55 PM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
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Originally Posted by ron1863  Could be that some kids have been throwing eggs, it's happened around my village. Just wish they would throw some T-bone steaks too | Not likely in our back garden. We don't have any chickens nearby either. |
22-05-2009, 09:57 PM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
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Originally Posted by FUDGEY Pheasants eggs are more of an olive green colour. | They are actually quite variable in colour ranging from light brown to olive green. |
22-05-2009, 10:03 PM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
Have no idea what bird's egg it is,but maybe the bird layed it in your garden?
We had a wood pigeon feeding in the garden when suddenly it squatted down on the lawn and laid an egg!!
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23-05-2009, 09:42 AM
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| | | Re: Chicken egg?
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Originally Posted by thelawnet Not likely in our back garden. We don't have any chickens nearby either. | But somemone may have bantams nearby, and a magpie dropped the egg after stealing it. I've seen it happen!
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