crazy heavy egg rock...

[djg]

crazy heavy 'egg' 'rock'...

i am so very fortunate to be hunting through a pre civil war barn, that has been stuffed by each owner and never cleared... I know, AWESOME!
I came across this on the lower level, just inside the 'foundation' (crumbling).... it is not just a rock... what are your thoughts?

 

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[TankerRobbie]

fossilized egg of some sort. find a paleontologist and ask they would know for sure

 

[djg]

thank you- but I was kinda thinking that already- i guess i should have asked for more information about (possible) 'fossilized eggs and how to know/ identify/ classify....

 

[TankerRobbie]

lol sry i couldnt be of more help

 

[: Michael-Robert.]

xray it. might be something inside. Gold/diamonds. etc

 

[Knut dirtfisk]

looks to me like some kind of corroded lead fishing wieght.

 

[gman7665]

I think they used them in raising chickens , to get the hen to Sit on the nest

 

[surf]

Howdy djg,

Welcome to the TNet, and thanks for showing us your egg. Whether stone, or glass, they were used by the farmer to induce the chickens to lay more eggs.

"On the farm the plain white eggs had several uses: they were placed in an outside nest (usually on the ground) to encourage the hen to lay in the same place (so the farmer could easily find the eggs), and inside the coop they were placed in the nesting box to help induce a hen to begin laying eggs." Antique Eggs in the Old Barn | Mule Springs

Alao see the last few paragraphs on page 140: A Lousy Start: A Realistic Book about the Great Depression in Holland - Jacobaris - Google Books

"Hand-blown glass eggs found buried beneath the old barn."​

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Alao see the last few paragraphs on page 140: A Lousy Start: A Realistic Book about the Great Depression in Holland - Jacobaris - Google Books "Hand-blown glass eggs found buried beneath the old barn."

Now, that was funny! Thanks for that story!

 

[d2]

Setting eggs...d2

 

[Tony in SC]

I thought it was big for a false egg. I would still have it checked out by a pro. When my chickens got slack on egg production, all I had to do was put a picture of Colonel Sanders in the hen house. Got more eggs than I could use. Tony

 

[Capt Nat]

Ballast stone from shipwreck?