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Hens eggs buried in garden
TrulyMadly
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Hi everyone,
We were planting our potatoes today and found a whole hens egg burried quite deep. I mentioned it to a neighbour this afternoon and she said she keeps finding them in her pots around the garden.
Honestly this is not an Easter joke. We are all mystified. There are hens living around us that are obviously laying them but what or who is carrying them and burying them.
Any ideas?
We were planting our potatoes today and found a whole hens egg burried quite deep. I mentioned it to a neighbour this afternoon and she said she keeps finding them in her pots around the garden.
Honestly this is not an Easter joke. We are all mystified. There are hens living around us that are obviously laying them but what or who is carrying them and burying them.
Any ideas?
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Almost certainly foxes. They cache food for later. I usually only get one at a time but if you have chucks they could be stealing more. Burying them keeps them cool and fresh longer.If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing0
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How strange, if they can get to the eggs then wouldn't they just kill the hens? I've a picture in my head of the fox from Brer Rabbit walking around on two legs burying eggs!"You've been reading SOS when it's just your clock reading 5:05 "0
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Hens do odd things with them, too - though i can't see them burying them deep. Might lay them in the pots though."Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research"
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got to admit you would expect them to kill the hens, they kill for pleasure as well as hunger. agree definatly a fox in your garden !0
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Definitely foxes. Do not be surprised if you have any grow bags and leave them empty at the end of the season if you find an egg in it.I'm not cynical I'm realistic
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No they don't :rolleyes:blackcoffee wrote: »got to admit you would expect them to kill the hens, they kill for pleasure as well as hunger. agree definatly a fox in your garden !
They kill every hen in a hen house, then if you leave them long enough, they will come back take every hen away and bury it.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
Thank you all so much. But now I'm a bit worried. We are only days away from getting our 4 hens. The egg we dug up didn't smell which means that it has only been buried recently.
Oh well just something else to worry about!To do is to be. Rousseau
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Don't forget to used something like Weldmesh, TrulyMadly, and not normal chicken wire! Make sure it's also sunk at least a foot into the earth - preferably in concrete! I'm sure you know all this already but I hate stories of foxes getting into chook coops.Dry January: 31/31 days. :T0
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