What kind of egg did I find?

My name is Julie and I live in Middle Tennessee, about 70 miles southeast of Nashville and I found an egg on the ground. It is tan in color, it has small brown dots all over, and one bigger brown dot on the top. The egg is about 1 1/2' long. I...

think this is a bird egg but I'm not sure. It was not found in a wooded area. It was found in a yard close to a highway. What kind of egg do you think that it is?

I think its a chicken egg..im most likley rite because my mom has a sh*t load of chickens and when I say a sh*t load I mean like thirty something of them..and we go and pick up dem eggs everyday..

Sounds to me like a ground nesting bird's egg (awful small for a chicken, and definately the wrong color)...a preditor maybe tried to get away with it, but dropped it...perhaps the mother bird was attacking, or another peditor might have wanted it...it probably won't hatch, but you could try to incubate it with a light bulb...Maybe check around on the internet, to see what temp an egg should be kept at...?

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Hey...is this what your egg looks like??? These are quail eggs (found in Tennessee), next to a chicken egg...

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I found the same kind of eggs 4 of them !! They were in my husbands truck under the hood. So I had no choice but to take them out. I put them in a box with a towel under the nest. I have them under a lamp. But I do not know what else to do with them. If they hatch I will take them to wild life place. But I am clueless as for what I need to do with them now. HELP !!