2006-11-02 09:57:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds
Because the birds sold for Christmas are too young to lay eggs for you. Chickens and Turkeys are the most cruelly treated farm animals when raised in the intensive broiler type system from which most of the meat comes from. If I ate meat, it would only be from animals which had a life before they were killed, such as organic.
2006-11-02 12:23:13 · answer #1 · answered by Sprinkle 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Found this on an American site, sounds good enough to me:
"Barnyard economics, babe. Turkeys don't lay that many eggs, and the ones they do lay are used to produce more turkeys. The average egg-laying chicken lays 300 or so eggs per year, while the average turkey produces only 100 to 120. Chickens come into production at 19 to 20 weeks of age, but turkeys don't get cranking until 32 weeks. Turkeys are also much larger, averaging 16 to 17 pounds compared to 3.5 pounds for chickens. So you'd need a lot more room for a bird that would take a lot longer to produce a lot fewer eggs.
Another problem is that turkeys go "broody" easily--they want to sit on their eggs and incubate them. In contrast, egg-producing white leghorn chickens have had the broodiness bred out of them. They lay and lay and have no desire to incubate their offspring or otherwise be maternal."
2006-11-02 18:05:25 · answer #2 · answered by Jill 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Good question but i dont even know of any breeders of turkeys let alone seeing turkey eggs in a shop.
2006-11-02 19:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by wildpalomino 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Turkey eggs are not visible to the human eye - under normal conditions. Tesco had a brief trial in 2003 but were forced to claim an astonishing £4.6m on their insurance policy to cover an unprecedented wave of shoplifting, strangely only of Turkey Eggs. The Tesco security guards union refer to 25th June 2003 as What Wednesday? £600'000 worth of turkey eggs were slipped past their members on one day of trading alone, after the scam to steal invisible eggs was revealed on a popular website forum.
You can visit the Bernard Matthews Theme Park, in Suffolk, and watch turkeys being born. They appear to pop out of thin air - due to their eggs being invisible and all.
2006-11-02 18:25:40 · answer #4 · answered by snurge 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They need all the turkey eggs to breed new turkeys...or there could be a shortage of turkeys for the xmas table!!
2006-11-02 18:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by Glasshopper 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow thats an awesome question! I've never eaten a turkey egg before! I wonder how they taste! Sorry don't have the answer for you. Only a comment lol!
2006-11-02 18:01:29 · answer #6 · answered by milldogg 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Why have turkey egg when you can have chicken egg
2006-11-02 20:45:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would imagine that because they are such ugly little critters, who would want to eat a baby version of them? No, the main reason is because they (Like Giraffes and Cocker Spaniels) are not prolific egg layers.
2006-11-02 18:05:19 · answer #8 · answered by Ta 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
because they don't lay eggs every day like chickens
2006-11-03 04:17:10 · answer #9 · answered by Loollea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coz they all hatch into turkeys so you can buy one for your chrimbo dinner
theres more profit that way
2006-11-02 17:59:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋