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Post by 4STIX on Sept 7, 2012 19:02:36 GMT 1
Found these whilest digging in the compost heap today.I said they were Unicorn Eggs and promptly got a slap from Jamdan who then put forward the idea that they where in fact Subterainean chicken eggs??? we do have some intellegent chats at times anyhoo anybody got any idea's on what they are ??, they are ovalish shaped and around 3cms long
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Post by troll on Sept 7, 2012 19:06:17 GMT 1
oo oo ooo are they sort of tough leathery? you lucky man could have grass snake heggs!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2012 19:08:47 GMT 1
Lizard eggs. If they are slightly soft that´s what i reckon they are,we found 3 under a slab buried in sand,had to move them as the slab was being cemented down, have read that if they are moved the embryo dies. Moved ours under another stone, but so far nothing has emerged.
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Post by 4STIX on Sept 7, 2012 19:09:45 GMT 1
yep troll they are ? i did think they were some sort of snake egg but someone else said they were some kind of witchity grub thingy ??
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Post by 4STIX on Sept 7, 2012 19:11:37 GMT 1
Should i sit on them for a couple of weeks and see what happens
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Post by Ali on Sept 7, 2012 19:16:02 GMT 1
I'm with Troll !!! Brilliant !!!!! We, as a family, used to look after a couple of fields (in my young youth) for hay for our osses, when we took over the fields (rented) they were full of bracken and not been touched for years. We had to clear the lot. I'll never forget the amount of grass-snake eggs that were there. At first we as kids thought they were Adders coz inside the eggs there were eeeeny weeny snakes, but of course they werent coz adders give birth and don't lay eggs. G snakes will lay in compost heaps coz of the warmth there and they'll hatch in late summer which is SOOOOOOON !! Is there anyway you can replace them back to where they came from? Here's a huge array of images of grass-snake eggs - do yours look like these? www.google.co.uk/search?q=grass+snake+eggs&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ezlKUI3BLYed0QWC14GgAg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=605OOOOoooooo please help them.
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Post by troll on Sept 7, 2012 19:17:14 GMT 1
grass snakes often live and lay eggs in compost heaps. They like the warmth. I moved one from a friends rockery about 3 weeks ago. It was a fabulous specimen, over a metre long and beautifully coloured. Unfortunately my friend, like so many, just wanted it somewhere else.
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Post by 4STIX on Sept 7, 2012 19:33:47 GMT 1
certainly look like grass snake eggs Ali ive put them back so hopefully I havent done any damage to them x
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2012 19:46:35 GMT 1
Not lizard eggs then??
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Post by Ali on Sept 7, 2012 19:53:24 GMT 1
Was Troll wot said - she's good she is
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