Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: sandy on July 13, 2009, 10:19:12 pm
Title: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: sandy on July 13, 2009, 10:19:12 pm
I bought a mable egg from a charity shop and put it into the nest for the hens, now its gone and
I think Steve has sold it ::)
who else would take a mable egg?
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: CarraghsBorderCollies on July 13, 2009, 10:34:13 pm
kids? magpies?
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Post by: northfifeduckling on July 13, 2009, 10:35:33 pm
try the eggbox , lol. The ceramic ones I just bought do look pretty real! :&>
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: doganjo on July 13, 2009, 11:45:36 pm
Bet it's a magpie. My lead duck has been sitting on two marked eggs for a week - just about to candle them - and only one there this morning. Not rats as the rat poison hasn't gone. If only I had an air gun!
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: sandy on July 14, 2009, 10:37:58 am
Well someone will find it difficult to crack!!! Later I will stipout the straw, at the weekend we found a cracked egg under the straw as it is a bit deep....sayig that, my OH has brought it in befoe ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: northfifeduckling on July 14, 2009, 11:55:44 am
I can't imagine a bird carrying a marble egg off , I have one of these as well and it it really heavy. The ducks don't even shuffle it about as they do with all the others! :&>
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.FOUND NOW
Post by: sandy on July 14, 2009, 12:04:28 pm
Found!!!!! hidden in the courner under all the straw, I didn't spend so much time looking yesterday as I had a bit of a rest day but this morning it was there, very well hidden and I had to get down on my knees!!!!
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Post by: Wellieboots on July 15, 2009, 05:49:42 pm
DOH!!!! ;)
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Post by: Christine B on July 15, 2009, 06:26:50 pm
Now that is the sort of thing that I would do ;)
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: sandy on July 15, 2009, 06:48:47 pm
I think it's connected to my spooky goings on ::) ::)or maybe just me not seeing as well and not bending as well!!!!
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: Rollicker on July 15, 2009, 07:29:27 pm
Probably moved by the egg fairies, distant cousins of the tool fairies. They're the ones who move your screwdriver, hammer etc from the very spot you placed it 2 mins ago !!!
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: sandy on July 15, 2009, 07:47:49 pm
Now the draw faeries are very active in our house, when you look in the draw things have gone but next time they are back on the top where you looked................spoooky!!! sometimes on Friday's, we are visited by the faeries that love a wee dram, they always empty my glass first, they must like me!!!
Title: Re: LOST. one marble egg.
Post by: northfifeduckling on July 17, 2009, 03:42:42 pm
for about a week I was using the ceramic eggs with the ducks, more or less successfully :). Trouble is, they are not glazed and really do attract muck. This morning I found one that was completely black, where the duck was nesting there must have been a coal bunker a century ago! :&>