What Laid This Egg?

[ldrchickens]

Hey guys. I was out doing spring cleanup yard work today and found this big ol egg in the yard. Not in a nest or anything. In the wide open. It's plain white and fairly heavy. Anyone have an idea of what it could be? I took it to a friend to incubate it for me since I'm all out of broody hens. She thinks it could either be a wild turkey or a stray peacock. She raises peacocks and it's identicale to her eggs but the closes peacocks to me are 10 miles away. We have wild turkeys, canadian geese, and several other wild birds all around us. Here's some pics comparing it to my hand and my silkie eggs. Plus a bonus pic of my big ok baby duxks since these are the only 3 pics so far on my new phone lol TIA!

 

[Glitterchicks]

It's too bad you don't have an incubator so you can catalog the progress here on byc!! Is your friend a member?? Can he/she do this? We love to obsess about these things here!!

 

[ldrchickens]

It's too bad you don't have an incubator so you can catalog the progress here on byc!! Is your friend a member?? Can he/she do this? We love to obsess about these things here!!

They do not. But she will be keeping me updated on the progress as well as pics so i will for sure be keeping you guys updated on the progress!

 

[sylviethecochin]

Turkey eggs tend to be speckled, and geese keep nests of their rather huge eggs.

I suspect ducks. They lay where they walk without a care.

EDT: Just occurred to me--definitely was not a stray peacock (and yes, I think this is hilarious)

 

[ldrchickens]

Turkey eggs tend to be speckled, and geese keep nests of their rather huge eggs.

I suspect ducks. They lay where they walk without a care.

Thats what i am thinking. I found a turkey nest one time and they were all speckled

 

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

That's one monster egg... Any disosaurs roaming near your property? Gotta be a goose... I had a Canadian goose hang on the property few years ago and did find an egg, that was about that size too.

 

[Glitterchicks]

They do not. But she will be keeping me updated on the progress as well as pics so i will for sure be keeping you guys updated on the progress!

I can't wait to find out what it is!! @Texas Kiki might want in on this too!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

That's one monster egg... Any disosaurs roaming near your property? Gotta be a goose... I had a Canadian goose hang on the property few years ago and did find an egg, that was about that size too.

Side note; You're alive! lol. Looks like you didn't die after all.

 

[ldrchickens]

That's one monster egg... Any disosaurs roaming near your property? Gotta be a goose... I had a Canadian goose hang on the property few years ago and did find an egg, that was about that size too.

Come to think of it i heard the growls of what sounded like a velociraptor in the woods a few weeks back

 

[ldrchickens]

I can't wait to find out what it is!! @Texas Kiki might want in on this too!

Same! These next 3 to 4 weeks need to hurry. Ill make sure to keep you posted