How come we don't eat Turkey eggs?

Answer 1

Most turkeys are raised for meat production, and they have been bred for large breasts. According to the veg soc website, the male turkeys now have such large breasts that it is impossible to breed turkeys naturally.

Also, most turkeys are slaughtered between 12 and 26 weeks of age. The experiments with breeding turkey eggs seemed to start with hens that were 31 weeks of age. So, they aren't old enough to lay any eggs.

I suspect, too, that turkey eggs wouldn't fit many modern recipes, and people might try them for fun, but they just wouldn't catch on. I understand that duck eggs are supposed to be absolutely delicious in cakes, but they just don't fit the grocery stores' notions of Standardized (they are larger than an extra large chicken egg).

According to the third website I cite, it's also illegal to eat wild turkey eggs. I guess it's illegal to breed them, too.

Interesting question! I guess chicken has just got a monopoly on the egg market, and you really have to look to find the eggs of other birds.

However, here in Japan, you *can* find quail eggs in almost any supermarket -- pre-boiled and pre-peeled, or raw quail eggs.

Answer 2

Turkey Eggs

Answer 3

Because you can't cram as many turkeys into a 1cu ft crate, burn off their beaks, and force them to breed. You would need more cages which factory farmers don't want to do. They're all about shoving as many animals as they can into the smallest amount of space possible so they can make the most money.

Gruesome reality of life on a factory farm. Free range and small farms are different though and they probably don't raise turkeys because they only produce profit one season a year instead of consistently.

Answer 4

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How come we don't eat Turkey eggs?

Answer 5

I ate a sandwich at a bazaar restaurant with scrambled turkey eggs and other stuff while in Morocco, it tasted the same as chicken eggs, they use them there when they aren't incubating them to hatch more turkeys. Probably people like to take the eggs and hatch out more turkeys, a baby turkey sells for a lot more than a baby chicken, check out the prices at places like Atwoods.

Answer 6

there could be a lot of reasons why turkey eggs are rarely eaten, but the more logical reason for this would be its availability in the market. Turkey farmers raise them for their meat, because thats where the profit is. turkeys dont lay eggs as much and as often as chickens, and if they sell the few eggs they make, it wouldn't be as profittable as selling turkey meat. Imagine the cost of raising turkeys,.... then just to sell eggs?

Answer 7

you can eat them, there a little stronger then chicken eggs, but the fact is, is that turkeys do not produce the amount of eggs like a chicken, and the ones produced are fertilized to produce turkeys

Answer 8

You could if you really wanted to. Ive eaten an ostrich egg, which I didnt enjoy. You can eat any egg, it doesnt have to be from chickens.

Answer 9

i don't no but they taste better then chock eggs

Answer 10

Because they use them for raising more turkeys.