(What to do with) Egg found in long grass

Hi

Apologies if this is the wrong forum. I was cutting back some long grass and I found a large brown egg (picture attached). It's about 2.5 inches long , so larger than a standard hens egg. Initially I was worried that I'd disturbed a birds nest, but this seems unlikely as there's no nest around the egg (it's 'buried' in a very shallow pit) and I don't tend to get birds in my garden that are big enough to lay an egg this size. The largest birds I get are pigeons and magpies. I'm guessing maybe a fox stole it and has placed it in the long grass 'for later', but I'm not sure. It doesn't look like any birds egg that I can identify via an internet search.
I've just covered it over with some moss for now, but was wondering:

Anyone know animal the egg could come from?
What should I do with the egg? My instinct is to bin it as I assume it's a stolen/abandoned egg, but I want to make sure before I do that.

 

Yeah looks like a crocodile egg to me.

But then I'm no expert.

 

I find eggs in the strangest places. It's foxes.
I also find trainers, crocs, gloves, balls, empty takeaway packages - I could go on and on and on and......

 

It does look like a chicken egg - perhaps only half an inch bigger than a "standard ". Do you have anyone who keeps chickens in your vicinity and are foxes about too ? Quite a few people find chicken eggs buried in their gardens and the usual culprit is a fox .
Other than putting it in an incubator and seeing what happens, you are a bit limited unless you want to contact the British Hen Welfare Trust with your photo and see if they can confirm one way or another.

 

Our neighbours feed the foxes with raw eggs. They eat them in our garden we often find the shells.

 

I get them occasionally, presumably by the local fox population. The back garden is more enclosed now, so they can't easily get in.
You can just leave it there @RobH1984 and it'll get retrieved, or if you don't want to encourage foxes, you can put it in a compost bin if you have one, or just in your council bin for food and garden waste.

 

Has it got a little lion stamped upon it ?....., with a date. Best not to drop it!!

 

Thanks for the replies. I haven't seen any foxes in the garden for a while, but we do have them in the area, and a few years ago they were frequent visitors, so I suspect they are the culprits.
Will probably bin it. Don't want it hatching/rotting and attracting rats. I'm not aware of any neighbours keeping chickens (but the gardens are a decent size around here so there might be someone somewhere).
On a separate note, I keep finding the remains of monkey nuts around my garden. Think one of my neighbours is feeding squirrels, which is a pain as the little blighters have been chewing my Courgettes!

 

Interesting, never seen the vermin eating courgettes . most other things yes!

 

More likely to be slugs eating the courgettes.