Name/Title

Nest Eggs

Entry/Object ID

7649

Description

These are 3 nest eggs. 1 plastic. The contents of the plastic one is nicotine, naphthalene, every other poison you can imagine made in Moorabbin in Melbourne. Has a hole in the top to allow the chemicals to disperse into the chook's nest. The other 2 are ceramic, completely perforated all the way around. These were activated by having a piece of sponge inside the egg with a cork. They were usually filled with DDT and left as a nest egg.

Collection

Animal Husbandry