why do you never see turkey eggs?

Question

where do all the egg shells go?? can you not eat the eggs only the birds?

Answer 1

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.

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Answer 2

Turkey Eggs Edible

Answer 3

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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 don't 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.

Answer 4

Because turkeys, like most birds except the chicken, do not lay eggs year round. Turkeys have a breeding season and only lay eggs once a year.

Answer 5

They are large and strong flavored. Turkeys that are raised to go to Thanksgiving dinner are sent at 8 to 12 weeks. That is before they start laying. Birds that have started laying get tough. The eggs are edible but only a few turkeys are kept for laying for the meat business.

Answer 6

I have to admit I'm stumped! I can think of all of the varieties in a regular supermarket, as well as those who specialize in cuisine's. But I can't say I ever recall seeing turkey eggs.

Maybe they take to long to gestate or only lay one or two at a time, and you make more on the meat sale.

Answer 7

Turkeys lay far fewer eggs than chickens, so it's not cost effective for farmers to use them as layers. Also, a hatched turkey is worth far more on the market than a turkey egg.

Answer 8

Turkey (and duck) eggs are just as edible as chicken eggs, but they're not widely (commercially) available because they're cost-prohibitive (high cost to produce them would mean a high cost to buy them).

I don't know that I've ever seen turkey eggs available in any store, but specialty stores do carry duck eggs.

And as for as the shells (after the wee baby turkeys hatch)...they're used for fertilizer, or for livestock feed (eggshells are entirely edible).

Answer 9

my friend has just informed me that turkey eggs are on sale at Asda. honestly go see for youselves.

Answer 10

its un-economical to mass produce turkey eggs.

they require more food, more space and do not lay eggs nearly as frequently as hens.