why can you buy chicken, duck, goose, quail eggs etc but not turkey eggs????

Answer 1

You CAN purchase turkey eggs. Here is one link: http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/category/turkey_eggs.html

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Turkeys do lay eggs but they are not sold in the shops because they are used for hatching.

Answer 4

Because all turkey eggs have been sold to Bernard Matthews for his breakfast/

Answer 5

Turkey eggs are available to buy. You may not know it but that is how turkeys are born. You start with an egg, it hatches and then you feed it and hey presto in December it arrives plucked and roasted as if by magic on your table.

Answer 6

I think it because they don't lay that many eggs and what they do have are used to give us more turkey's

Answer 7

Do "turkey" eggs make "spanish" ommlette????

Answer 8

Because they taste foul!!

Answer 9

because they are worth more and there won't be enough turkeys for Thanksgiving.

Answer 10

turkeys don't lay eggs.