find at old 1800s home place..

[ink-a-alot]

This is not an Indian grinding rock! or neather are the two smaller ones.. I found these at a old plantation that had burnt down last year, I've been told that they might have been used for sowing sox, or to use them in a chicken coop to kill snakes.. I dint think they were used for that purpose.. I have hundreds of grinding rocks and rubbing rocks that Indians had used... So i would know if they were grinding rocks.. I relay dint know what they are, and i relay would be thankful if anyone can help! ...... they are in the shape of eggs...

 

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[DialM]

Decorative egg?

 

[d2]

I would guess they were put in the nest so the chickens would set. We used to put glass ones in the nests and had some hard solid ones also...d2

 

[DCMatt]

I would guess they were put in the nest so the chickens would set. We used to put glass ones in the nests and had some hard solid ones also...d2

Agree. Fake eggs used by farmers to encourage hens to lay.

DCMatt

 

[nova treasure]

I would think either decorative or for sitting,but the Chinese and some royalty families had another unique use for a stone egg, but you might want to google search that answer.I will just say they were used for strengthening.

Nova Treasure

 

[stefen]

Another possible source...if

May be a mineral stone from the stomach of a horse that died from colic...

Because of ground feeding or an enormous amount of soil contained within baled hay (harvested in wet soil), horses develop the egg shaped stones, some as big as footballs.

The sand in the gut (stomach) solidifies into these egg-shaped stones and block the intestines, thus causing colic...

Horses, by the way cannot regurgitate, burp or vomit anything that is swallowed...

Walking and mineral oil will sometimes dislodge whatever is impacting the horses gut...

And if you're familiar with horses any at all, you will know that colic is extremely painful and a horse will generally lay down and die.

Ask any large animal Vet for an identification...you may be surprised with his answer...Contact a Horse Vet in yhour area or drop into a Vet Large Aninal Hospital...they usually have a display case...facinating experience.

If not identifiable by a vet (or borderline), in order to determine if its a mineral gut egg, it would need to be sliced open in order to see the mineral layers that look similar to tree rings.

 

[thrillathahunt]

They are collector eggs .....were made from granite, marble agate etc. My grandma used to have a few of them. Remember seeing them when I was a kid.

 

[Monty]

Agree, henhouse eggs. We had a bunch when I was a kid. It keeps the hen from laying eggs all over the barnyard. She thinks she is hatching them. Monty

 

[stefen]

Monty,

As I recall, the hen house eggs were blown milk glass...don't remember multi-colored eggs.

 

[nebstater]

Looks like you have the beginnings for an old Chinese 100 year old egg soup. (lol)

The others have properly identified your eggs.

 

[Monty]

The ones we had were porcelan. The get discolored over time with chicken squat and other things that get on them. Monty

 

[dg39]

I'll through in a monkeywrench and say a darning egg used as a form to mend socks, etc.
DG

 

[GL]

I would think darning egg but I thought the majority of them were wooden with a handle.
False egg for laying hens or decorative item.

 

[Square Nail]

Darning egg. Both my mom and my aunt used them when I was a kid. The hen house eggs were white glass or porcelin as I recall.