i found it on my doorstep...can i feed it to my son?

Question

last year i bought a welcome mat for my doorstep, and during the rainy weather, a peahen laid an egg on it.

(my apartment complex is overrun with peacocks, and during the rainy season, they tend seek refuge under balconies and awnings.)

well, it's a straw mat, and i think the egg was laid because of the mat's "nesting" qualities. it actually happened twice last year, and i let it alone each time, only to find it had been knocked down the stairs when the peahen attempted to retrieve it.

well, a year later...this morning...i awoke to find yet another peacock egg on my mat. i was leaving to take my son to school and he asked if i would cook it for him. at first i was like, "gross!" and then i thought...well...it IS an egg....?

so i ask you...? could we eat the egg? do people eat peacock eggs??

i'm sure i'll leave it anyway, but the question still remains.

snooksville...of course i would eat it first! i should have put that. i just wanted to get people's attention to read the question.

although i'm reluctant to even cook it up anyway.

if i were to eat it, i would even wait a day or two to see if it did me in. then i'd let him try the NEXT one!

kristonianinstitution...(wow...that's a mouthful)...anyway...see, i didn't even know that peacock eggs were even sold anywhere. i didn't know if people actually ate them! :P

daisymay44...eh, whatever. i don't care. just give it a thumbs down and it goes away. even children need to have their fun. don't let him get to you. :)

Answer 1

lol yes you can they are stronger in taste to hen eggs tho

i work on a farm that keeps peacocks and they taste great

Answer 2

Take the egg to your local County Extension Service. It will usually be run through a major university in the area.

It is their job to answer questions that you can't get answers to elsewhere, and they are funded by the taxpayer, so it costs you nothing.

For example, I once found something that was very obviously a member of the same family as parsely and carrots, but wasn't hemlock, and I didn't recognize it. Since several members of that family are deadly poison, rather than eating it, I took it to the extension service and they identified it as a parsnip, which is only poisonous BEFORE you cook it.

I didn't know before that incident that a parsnip grows a 7 foot tall stalk with umbels of tiny yellow flowers that look like they haven't got petals and like syrup has been dripped on them, but I do now. I'm a botanist, but when I couldn't identify it, I sent it to the experts for free.

Last year I had bugs I'd never seen before zipping around my place, and afraid for my walls, I caught one in a jar and took it in. They identified the source as my woodpile. They knew that this particular bug does not infest walls, only dead trees. I checked and found out that they were right. Someone had sold me wood cut from a standing dead tree, and it was infested with horntail wasp larvae; I could see the exit holes made by the boring wasps once I knew where to look. No one in my area knew what the bugs were because they were an odd species that didn't have the narrow wasp waist, but the County Extension Service knew. It was a relief they were not in the walls!

Of course there are some things you need to consider with perishables. By now without refrigeration the egg may have spoiled, so refigerate them when you find them!

The County Extension service is very useful. Refrigerated or not, you can get your answer from letting them test it. Take the egg to them, tell them it was laid within 24 hours, ask if they are safe, and they will crack it and test it. If they say yes, eat them.

Realistically, there is NO effective difference between free range peacock eggs sold at the health food store and this one except the price, since you can't get much more free range than having a wild peacock lay an egg on your doorstep.

Remember, humans got all their food from nature before the 20th century started us processing everything to death, and it is almost a certainty that the first person to consider selective breeding to create the modern chicken did so because they were tired of climbing in search of birds nests and thought, "What if they came to me?"

The point is to make sure the bird doesn't have a disease. If the egg is clean, you've lost this one, but the next ones should be seen as gifts!

Answer 3

basicly all eggs are the same you know yoke surrounded by a white.so the egg it self shouldnt be a problem.ive eaten goose eggs, duck eggs,quail eggs,guinea fowl eggs,i even tasted an emu egg,theyre all the same as far as taste, just a size difference.having raised chickens also i guess the real concern is how fresh it is .if where you live isnt incredibly hot all the time ,the shell isnt cracked and its been say laying on the mat less than 12 hours it is probably a lot fresher and safer than store bought eggs which can sit in a ware house for a week or more waiting for distribution. let us know if you try it.

Answer 4

Hm.. I say dont because you dont know if its infected or diseased so I say throw the egg away or call the animal people or something to take care of it.

Answer 5

anyone call animal control and discuss this situation?


don't eat the egg... leave it alone..


talk to someone who knows these things... i'm unsure if the tards at animal control can help... but there's many listings online just google.com it .... key up the information for local facilities that can help you.

that's what the tax dollars are for.

Answer 6

no silly
the risk of salmonella and other nasties is too high.
free range from the local store is fine.

the taste might put him off eggs for life too!!

love
xxxx

Answer 7

for normalcy sake I wouldn't stick to store bought peacock eggs

Answer 8

Go for it! You could make a good living selling these on eBay!

Answer 9

I wouldnt eat it or feed it to anyone else,

Answer 10

I'd love to make you breakfast xx