I was weeding one of my trees in the front landscape, and found this what I think is a bird egg. The dirt above it was not loose - it was undisturbed ; there was probably about 2 inches of mulch and dirt above it. Really odd. It does not look like a reptile egg, it is hard; I use my phone light to see into it, but it does not look fertile.

Looks kinda like turkey.

JSKolache said:

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Turtle egg. We had a red eared slider drop maybe 10 eggs in front flowerbed down several inches of mulch. Many months later we found 2 baby turtles in the flowerbed. They come up in the day time and dig back down at night.

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IMHO, its not a turtle or any other reptile egg. The egg was hard and almost translucent. Turtle eggs (and other reptile eggs) will generally dry up, and the edges will "curl" due to drying out. This egg had a hard shell, and I could not see any evidence of drying out. Having thought about it, it looked most like a turkey egg in shape and size.

Looks awfully white and clean for a "wild" egg, anyone playing Easter Bunny in the yard and maybe forgot one?

ShouldastayedataTm said:

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Looks awfully white and clean for a "wild" egg, anyone playing Easter Bunny in the yard and maybe forgot one?

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Nope.

Put it in a open top box under a lit light bulb for a week or so and see what hatches out. I did that with some quail eggs back on the farm when I was a kid plowing a field for replanting. I did it in the house in the family room. They all hatched and we had baby quail running every which way.......momma was not a happy camper

Rattler12 said:

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Put it in a open top box under a lit light bulb for a week or so and see what hatches out. I did that with some quail eggs back on the farm when I was a kid plowing a field for replanting. I did it in the house in the family room. They all hatched and we had baby quail running every which way.......momma was not a happy camper

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I'm gonna do that. I have an old reptile lamp that I can use with a regular lightbulb.

Any chance it's a killdeer? Those idiots will drop an egg in the middle of a gravel driveway

CanyonAg77 said:

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Any chance it's a killdeer? Those idiots will drop an egg in the middle of a gravel driveway

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No. I am familiar with Kildeer eggs. Is much bigger than a killdeer egg, and looks nothing like it.

Looks similar to the duck eggs I've got all over my yard. Some times they leave them out in the open. When they're ready to actually lay they'll start burying them. They like my mulch beds. They'll lay one a day so if if you have another in the same spot tomorrow it's prob ducks.

Looks like a porcelain egg placed in coops to kill chicken snakes.

Put it in front of a really bright lamp and you might be able to see what is inside.

It's definitely weird egg location season. From my post last week.

I remember sitting at a tank huntin doves with my grandad. They would always run around the tank banks.
We always called them " killme's"

I know where that's from! There was an OP a long while back that said he had cotton tails jumping up into his car engine eating wires.
That was one of those wire eating Easter bunnies that left that!