What would steal an egg AND a golf ball

[rolffamily]

(I just put this in the wrong category and will be scolded so here I am in the pest section.) I have new pullets laying everywhere so I locked them in their run and coop and put a marked egg in the nest box. The next day there was a new egg but the marked egg was gone without a trace. Then I put a golf ball in the box and a few days later I had two new eggs but the golf ball was gone. I live in NE Wisconsin. What critter do you think?

 

[Jferlisi]

Snakes are known to go into the nesting boxes and eat the eggs, but they also mistake a white golfball for a egg and will eat it. So my bet is on a snake.

 

[rolffamily]

It is between 30 and 40 degrees at night - too cold for snakes in Wisconsin. Labor Day weekend is usually about the last time you see any around and we mostly have grass snakes in this area.

 

[chicks4kids]

Even though you say it's too cold, I'm voting snake too.

 

[aprophet]

I have used golf balls to catch coons and possum in traps , they have been moving the last 2 weeks here.

 

[drumstick diva]

I'd say snake also. It may be cold outside but, it may be hiding in your coop and doing okay. I really think they are the only ones dumb enough to swallow a golfball.

 

[rolffamily]

So how do you catch a snake?

 

[chkn]

Seems like a snake. He may not come back if he ate the golfball because I think it would kill him. Someone here said something about glass eggs killing snakes. Sort of an old trick I guess.

 

[haTHOR]

snakes in that kind of cold? i highly doubt it. unless the snakes up there wear mufflers. i would like to hear from snake experts on this one before one is blamed for sure.

 

[Desert Rooster]

maybe its a golfer that needed a ball, and has not had breakfast yet and took an egg.