Burried chicken eggs!

Just read this thread and would like to add that when digging my friends garden in the summer, I found an egg buried there. It was about 6ins down and there was no sign of the soil being disturbed. I pointed the situation out to my friend who told me that foxes come into his garden very often. they play on the lawn, burst his kids balls (plastic ones) and do their business on the lawn. He said that his neighbour had found an egg buried in his flower border too. I guess that it is the foxes hiding them for later!
G.man

 

OMG I never would have thought that!

 

Thanks everyone for your replies.

This thread is not a joke. The eggs I have found are not broken and have been kept safe in the earth. I did break one that I found on purpose and it stunk to high heaven - it must have been burried for months! I know they are chicken eggs as one of the ones I found had the red crest mark on it with a date - it was a few months old but I could just see the red stamp on it. So I think whatever burried it took it from an egg box (do milkman still deliver egggs?) Or even one of my family members is playing tricks on me!

I will take a picture the next time I find one and revive this thread!

 

If it has the red stamp, it's not home grown then! The mystery deepens...

 

That is eggstraordinary:hehe::hehe:

 

Eggsactly what I thought. It makes an eggselent read though. It is no eggsageration that the discovery of buried chucky eggs is eggstremely uncommon I think.

 

uncommon - Oh no its not. Found one today. Greenish, seemed empty.

Dont think its a chicken's egg as there wasn't a lion stamped on it.

 

if you do a google search, it seems this is quite common, there are loads of people asking the same question!! The most regular answer seems to be foxes.

 

OMG I can't believe I'm reading this. I have been finding buried chicken eggs in my garden pots for years. I have also been wondering if someone is taking the time to play a joke on me. I once found an egg in a plant pot that I have just under the window sill, so whatever put it there can reach further up. I usually find the eggs in May just as I am digging up the crusty soil after a long winter, and find the egg in the middle of the pot and like you I have never seen any signs of the earth being dug up, believe me I would notice. I live on the outskirts of London in an end of terraced house. It's a mystery!!!

 

Today I emptied a large pot of slug eaten coriander, only planted on 7 July. Imagine my amazement when sifting through the compost I too found a large chicken egg complete with red stamp!
It was through searching the 'net for some kind of explanation that I came across this site with your extraordinary story. I'm still baffled but glad to hear I'm not alone. However, we do have frequent visits from both foxes and squirrels, and to my knowledge there are no chickens in the area.
Any answers to this incredible event gratefully received!

 

It'll be foxes, in my experience - I live very near a railway embankment which is a local 'fox superhighway' and both my neighbour and I have come across buried eggs more than once. Happens when neighbours leave their rubbish bags containing food waste out overnight - the foxes come, rip the bags open and take any edibles they fancy. The buried eggs I've encountered have always been raw, so the foxes must be clever about carrying them gently in their jaws!

 

I have put the odd egg out for the foxes and they do carry them off without breaking them, eggs are actually quite resistant to breaking unless they are dropped.

My recent find was a furry half buried thing which appeared to be sprouting grass.
Turned out to be a fat ball, but had me guessing for a while.