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White Egg - 4/4/2004 5:00:38 PM    BRichardson5   Posts: 377 Joined: 8/29/2003 From: Pacific Northwest Status: online I found this egg while digging for bottles in a rural farm dump. I can't really be sure what it's made of- definately not plastic but not fragile enough to be glass. I've heard that they were used to put under chickens so that the chickens would lay eggs. Another theory was that it was bait for snakes, and the snake would die because it wouldn't be able to digest it (Perhaps the people threw the dead snake into the dump, and the snake decomposed over the years, leaving only the egg). A third idea was that the egg aided in the knitting of a sock, in which it was placed in the bottom of the sock to give it form. Has anyone else dug an egg like this, or does anyone know what it was used for? -Brian Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: White Egg - 4/4/2004 5:40:35 PM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline While growing up in NY we had some 'laying hens', and there was some of these eggs around that had been passed down from my aunt's place. My parents said they were placed in the nesting boxes to incourage laying. I found some in the foundations of an old barn once also. _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 2

RE: White Egg - 4/4/2004 5:46:26 PM    Harry Pristis   Posts: 495 Joined: 7/24/2003 From: Northcentral Florida Status: offline It's called a "nest egg," and it was used to encourage hens to lay eggs. I don't know the chicken psychology, but the term dates back to the 14th century according to my on-line dictionary. A snake could regurgitate a nest egg as easily as it ate it -- more easily, in fact, because it would be already lubricated in the snake's gut. The hazard to the snake is that it couldn't get back out of the henhouse through the chickenwire with the bulge in its belly -- fatal if the farmer finds it! The darning aid for repairing hose usually has a handle; but, in a pinch I imagine a nest egg would substitute. ----------Harry Pristis < Message edited by Harry Pristis -- 4/4/2004 5:50:17 PM > _____________________________ ______________________________________________ Visit The Demijohn Page at: http://members.aol.com/pristis/index.html (in reply to BRichardson5) Post #: 3

RE: White Egg - 4/5/2004 1:52:20 PM    Guest i have found a few of these eggs digging over the years.. also i have found whole real eggs in the bottom of privys. imagin being buried for 100 years and not broken.. !! does your egg have a pontil on the small end? mine are pontiled. _____________________________ Always looking Mint Cola bottles, and local bottles from North Carolina (in reply to BRichardson5)   Post #: 4

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