Any ideas who's eating the eggs?

Rats

Perhaps the eggs have been poisoned?
Not quite the same thing, but one of our frequent food alarm warnings (in OZ) concerned salmonella in eggs.
Now I'm worried as to whether the chickens are the problem!?
We could save them up for our General Election next month!

I agree with Jane10 and Moggie57. Set up CCTV on several spots and see who's the culprit.

Perhaps there is something more sinister going on. Perhaps the eggs have been poisoned?

I feed a few Foxes and they love eggs, I put one out with their food every night. I'm not saying that is what is happening to the ones you are finding but it is possible, as someone else on here said, get a night camera, then you might see who is visiting.

Some animals can bite holes in eggs without smashing them - the polecat or weasel is the likeliest culprit, as it is hens' eggs we are talking about.

I had a cat once who fetched wood pigeons eggs out of their nests without breaking them. She brought them in to eat in comfort and made a neat hole in one end with her big teeth.

oldgaigin

The seagulls round here peck the rubbish sacks - even though there is no food in the general waste there could be a piece of kitchen roll with a little food on it and they peck the sacks and strew the rubbish everywhere.
(We don't have bins here.)

They look pecked by, perhaps by a magpie, rather than taken by a fox or other animal.

Perhaps a fox has got them from a rubbish sack after someone threw them out because they were out of date. Hate mysteries!

The odd thing is that the yolk is still visible inside the egg,
Perhaps the biter didn’t like the taste or was disturbed and ran off?
A lot of creatures are partial to an egg ( including me) so it could be a bird, a hedgehog, a polecat or martin, stoat, rat weasel etc.

foxes/crows/magpies/hedgehogs/wesasel/. get a night cam

Someone missing their doorstep delivery of milk and eggs perhaps? We no longer have a milkman but I know the rare 'lesser spotted milkman' can still be found in some rural areas

Fox or crafty weasel type creature pinching them out of the boxes on the doorstep. If they are stamped they're not getting them out of the chicken runs are they.

We've got a night view camera my husband sometimes uses for photography and I don't think it was that expensive if you really want to find out who the culprit is.

Telly

I thought this thread might be about Easter Eggs. I was going to say it might be me.

I don't know if it's magpies that are getting the eggs, but I do know the crow and magpie family are tested as being highly intelligent tool users and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they could work this sort of technique out.

I must admit to having left an egg out to see what happened to it. On our night vision camera we saw a fox carefully pick it up and carry it away.

Rat?

MamaCaz, I live in Northampton and we have had a polecat in our back garden. This was about 10 years ago and I reported it to the county wildlife trust. They said that they had been disturbed from their usual habitat because of a new road being built and others had been reported in the same area. A couple of weeks later DH and I were out on a walk and saw one on a golf course. Strange about the eggs.

It's an eggplant.

I'm in Wiltshire, MamaCaz but I think polecats are pretty rare here. I'm confused as to how a mammal or rodent could bite a neat hole in the side of an egg without smashing it! Hey Ho, maybe we'll have to do as Jane10 says and set up CCTV. Thanks all

As the eggs are stamped I think someone is maybe leaving them for wildlife to benefit from - or having an early easter egg hunt.

I have it on very good authority that we now have polecats in our part of Northamptonshire, so they are becoming more widespread.
However, even if these turned out to be nanasam's culprits (I don't know where she is), it still leaves the question of where the culprit is finding stamped eggs!

How interesting. You'll need to set up CC TV!

If you don't have polecats in your area * nanasam* then perhaps it is a stoat or weasel. They both eat eggs.