thanks! We got rid of the egg. I'm still confused by how it got there though... our best theory is that it might have been dropped by a predator who was trying to steal it.
We tried candling the egg. I've never candled an egg before, so I can't tell. We thought we saw a shadow in the egg earlier, but it's not visible in this photo, so I'm not sure. Is it infertile? (The smudges are dirt)
So, our house is in the woods. We found a large brown-ish white egg (about the size of a chicken egg) near the tree line. It looks like a turkey egg(?), and wild turkeys are constantly walking around that area. But it didn't look like it was in a nest, and I couldn't find any other eggs around...
I think she did get taken by a predator. Last night the three guineas that were left weren't in the coop, but we found 2 roosting on our monkey bars, and one on the roof of our jungle gym.
We think they had sensed a predator of some kind and wanted to roost up high. Also, our other female has a...