Egg ID?

found this egg in a rose bush. Been left for a few days. Just wondering what type of egg it might be? Any eggsperts?



Compared to a hen egg...

Could it be a duck egg? Had a muscovy duck wandering around a couple of weeks ago, but the farmers either side of us have hens (but never seen them sround the garden).

 

Yes, looks like a duck egg.

 

In the comparison photograph they look to be the same size. Duck eggs are usually larger.
The colour might suggest a duck egg, but I have hens which lay the same colour eggs as that one.
Muscovy duck eggs are whiter than your one.

The only way to know for sure is to open it: the shell will be thicker than a chicken egg and a duck egg tastes different to hen eggs.

 

Pheasant...

 

Oohs i'll crack it open. Wonder if its edible or gone off??? I shone a light through it and couldnt see any veins etc so hopefully its not fertilised.

Could quite well be a pheasant as got loads about!

 

Found this but now I'm more confused as it could be a Mallard and we have those around too.

 

Well the shell was quite thick...not as easy to crack as a chicken egg. It was fertilised but only slightly developed as the dot was bigger than an unfertilised egg. Smells a bit "pond watery" if you get what I mean.

 

Mallard it is then

 

It's not a peasant or a phartridge then?

 

Possibly Duck or Cream legbar (Chicken).

 

Pheasant

 

I guess we'll never know....unless I see one in the act!!

We also have a peacock and a couple of pea hens too but they wouldn't have been able to get under the rose bush as it's too small. Lol.

There was only one egg....would that make a difference to what it could be?

 

Its a type of place it would nest they can get in small places, I would leave any more alone if you find any.

 

@Snorky85 the photo you put up of the different types of eggs says it is from the University of Nebraska (Lincoln)so their pheasant eggs might be a different colour to the pheasant eggs you get in this country which I have always found to be of an olive green shade when I found them as a youngster wandering over the fields

 

Thanks peeps. I'm going to go with a pheasant egg!