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What the heck is this?!?!?!?!?

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Today, when moving some vinyl siding, much to my surprise after I picked the last piece up there were some light brownish-white eggs underneath the last piece, kind of in a rut. Thinking they were golf balls (I hit them all over the yard) I reached down to pick them up when much to my surprise I noticed they were eggs! They are almost exactly the size of a medium chicken egg (like my black silkies lay). I know there is no way they are chicken eggs, as it would have been next to impossible for a chicken toget under there. Also I know that no predator is "storing" eggs there, as I can account for nearly every single egg my hens have laid, 1egg, per chick, per day. All I can guess is these are snake eggs waiting to hatch...anyone else heard of anything like this, and if so, how can I remove them!!!!

Proud owner of 3 Dogs, 4 Black Silkies, and 10 Buff Orpington/Rhode Island Reds, 1 Black Sexlink, 1 Black Australorp, 1 Golden Comet, 1 Light Brahma, and 1 Barred Rock. Yet the most expensive habit I have is my wife of 1 year.

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Proud owner of 3 Dogs, 4 Black Silkies, and 10 Buff Orpington/Rhode Island Reds, 1 Black Sexlink, 1 Black Australorp, 1 Golden Comet, 1 Light Brahma, and 1 Barred Rock. Yet the most expensive habit I have is my wife of 1 year.

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Crack one open to see what it is. Very likely a snake egg though. 

Momma to 1 little human boy, 1  big mutt dog, a bunch of chickens ( Cochins)  Married to my best friend and enabler of the crazy ideas I get!!

 

"everbody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" Albert Einstein

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Momma to 1 little human boy, 1  big mutt dog, a bunch of chickens ( Cochins)  Married to my best friend and enabler of the crazy ideas I get!!

 

"everbody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" Albert Einstein

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post #3 of 5

I'd have to put them in the bator and see what hatches! ep.gif  Not really! I'll bet they are snake or turtle eggs.

"Live and learn from fools and from sages" ~ Aerosmith
Black & Blue Copper Marans, and one Wheaten ~ White, Partridge & BBS Silkies
Member of:  ASBC

 

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"Live and learn from fools and from sages" ~ Aerosmith
Black & Blue Copper Marans, and one Wheaten ~ White, Partridge & BBS Silkies
Member of:  ASBC

 

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I am trying to remember but I don't think that snake or turtle eggs would be the same as a bird egg...they have a more leathery type outer 'shell'.

All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, and all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God Made them all
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All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, and all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God Made them all
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All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, and all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God Made them all
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All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, and all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God Made them all
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