That's one to try then, I hadn't thought of that, I have been cracking eggs along hedgerows in the back paddocks behind the stables, as we too had chickens whose eggs were constantly being stolen by the resident maggies.

We have 8 acres of land and I have often found my chicken eggs deposited right at the top of the hill a good distance from the chicken shed. How on earth do they manage to carry them that far whole? Surely they don't eat the contents of the egg and carry the shell off afterwards?