New Australian Hatching Mystery Egg at Home

[Teloka]

Have you got a place where you can get some chicks, ducks, etc.? You're going to need to have some buddies for this thing or it will drive you bonkers once it hatches. Anything you hatch will imprint on you as Momma and will go lulu wanting attention if there aren't any companions. With a lonely only, we often use a mirror, stuffed animal, feather duster, etc. to keep it company, but it is much easier to get a friend and let them keep each other company.

Of course I don't know where you'll get a velociraptor...but still...

I would really like the baby to imprint on me! I am happy to shower it with tonnes and tonnes of affection; I have already handraised my two birds from hatching and they are still always wanting attention and playing and treats! My Loki (ring neck parrot) is quite agitated at all the attention this 'thing in the bowl' is getting! I can get ducks and chickens at the produce store along with feeds, but I was thinking of keeping this one as an inside house duck, but I don't think I could keep multiples inside the house! :S

It's a velociraptor or a dragon, I've heard that they're more 'bond with a single person' type critters, so no worries

Okay, I did an online search. and I did find an Australian animal that abandons it's eggs. It usually leaves it's eggs in nests of bush nesting birds, for a ready source of food when hatched. It might have heard your birds inside and assumed the rug was their nest.
The young are known to mimic the sound of birds to encourage the birds to sit on them even though they have a longer due date.

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It really seems like the mystery parents were Hoop Snakes.

I really hope it isn't one of these! Snakes usually have soft shelled eggs along with a lot of our local reptiles. We have tonnes of water monitors here, but their eggs take a whole season to hatch and take 200-300 days! Crocodiles are 55-100 days, and we don't have any of these locally and no fresh or saltwater streams. My money is on a wood duck or brush turkey or golden pheasant!

 

[hokankai]

Hoop snakes aren't real, so no worries

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

Aghhh!! Where is a webcam when we need one!

My nephew has them all.

He has a Dropcam, home protection cam, and 3 Cisco cams.....

Tech all the way.

 

[Coupe]

I vote brush turkey!
They are really pretty birds!! Just looked them up,wish we had turkeys like that!

 

[Jharper]

A golden pheasant would be awesome.

 

[SourRoses]

Heeeeey!! NO Fun!

LOL

 

[ozexpat]

Drop bears are unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas (although the koala is not a bear) that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above.
It is often suggested that Vegemite spread behind the ears will deter the creatures.

 

[Teloka]

BEAK!!! EEEEEE also it just flicked a piece of shell so hard it sent it through the gap in the bowls onto the bench!

 

[Jharper]

Is the egg small or big?

 

[Flowerbh]

Had a lone chick hatch so we put a mirror in the brooder and it became her best friend. You might want to find one for our mystery chick!