Hi Everybody!! Ok so I was doing my favorite thing today, playing in the dirt.... and due to the heavy rains last week some of my seeds in my lil starter pots got unearted. I had the pots on a table in the tray under the overhang. Some of the seeds were starting to sprout and I wanted to get these guys all fixed up, so I was losening the dirt and a little white egg came up. So I took the little guy appropriately named Eggward and put him in his own container of dirt with a lid cracked open. I wrapped a towel around the container and put a warm water bottle under. I left it out on my porch on a table. I didn't want to just throw it back in dirt, I wasn't sure of what to do and I was worried I messed up his temperture. I looked to see if it was like a nest but it was just a single hard shelled egg. I assume its a lizard and I will just leave it be, I hope I didn't kill it when I was digging. What's your opinion? Has this happend to you? Any tips or advice? Eggward 5/6 ( photo / image / picture from Mrs. Galeassi's Garden ) okra and green bean where i found Eggward 5/6 ( photo / image / picture from Mrs. Galeassi's Garden )
Is there anything above where you found Eggward? Tree, building, bush? The egg looks speckled, or is that dirt? Perhaps something that did not hatch last year? Hmmm.... raises more questions than answers. Jerry
I had the tray/pots under a overhang right against my home by the back door on a small table. Its a super tiny egg and I'm pretty sure its white and that's just dirt. I wiped it when I first found it but was scared to kill it.... I don't think its a bird egg. But I honestly don't know. Smaller then a shell less peanut.
Now, I'd be thrilled, but you may not be. Snakes lay eggs. Very small eggs. You may have an incipient serpent. I'd leave it alone, keeping it out of the house (for obvious reasons) and see what happens. Most snakes are beneficial, and don't want anything to do with humans. After hatching, they are on their own (snakes are notoriously bad mamas) and can go off into the wilderness on their own. Let us know what happens, please.
I will keep you posted I'm going to just leave Eggward be. If its a lizard or bird I hope to be around for the hatching. If its a snake uuhhh ummm I will call on my husband... lol.... I wonder how long till it hatches.I'm going to go hit google up. Oh no if its a bird I better make sure there's a place to take him. Ok I have a job ahead of me it looks like.
If it's a reptile egg, you shouldn't change positions. Another words, don't roll them. Looks like an Anole egg to me. If you take a small pea and smash it like an egg, well, that's the size it would be. Others are sticky and hang on walls or leaves. Clearly these are not like that. They take 4 to 6 weeks to hatch. The babies sure are cute..
Oh no Barb I rolled it when I first found it. Was looking at it at first like is this an egg.... and then wiped the dirt away. I'm not sure what a anole is. Is it a bug or lizard? That sounds about the right size, its shaped like a chicken egg and its hard shelled. Can't be sure of the exact color it was in dirt but it wiped away for the most part.
An American chameleon, Anolis carolinensis. They run around all over the place in Florida. It is a lizard. Geckos are very round not oval. Was it near water? Make sure you gently mist them with warm water once a week. I have hatched lots of these. If you want to watch them just put them in a fish tank with a cover or at least a panty hose stretched over the top with a solid piece of tape around the top. You also could put them in a clear plastic bag with a drop of water in the bottom of it and twistie it shut. You can always release them later. they would need little baby food if you decide to keep them. You know like aphids???? LOL
Now don't do what I did the first time and after 4 months I decided I rolled them the first day. So I opened my little egg, only to watch my little baby anole die in my hands. Be patient..... Ya never know...
Ok thanks... just gonna keep him in the container he's in now and keep him warm and a bit moist. Will keep ya updated... it must of just been buried cause I just put that soil in there only a week ago.
My kids once dug a hole in the ground, and put an empty juice bottle in it. Lizards and snakes lay their eggs in there a lot, because it is warm like an incubator. Some of the eggs in that were light pink, and about the size of a dried bean. They will hatch out when they are ready. I once saw a mamma turtle lay her eggs in the ground in my yard, and I watched the spot for over a year, but they never hatched out that I know of. At least they never left any evidence of hatching. I hope your egg hatches out, and is NOT a snake! Sometimes the treefrogs or other frogs and toads lay their eggs in my pets' water tubs. They became tadpoles, but the weather turned cold before they were frogs, so I don't know if they lived or not.
Sorry friends Eggward didn't make it.... I tried but I found his egg like sucked in..... I kept him moist and away from predators, I think he may have gotten to hot....
