General Chat

We all buy chickens eggs or duck eggs ....
But what happens to all the turkey eggs....
Ive never seen them on sale...
DO YOU KNOW....

you can't buy turkey eggs, the meat is worth more than 'egg selling' :)

Hev x

But we breed so many....
Do they throw the eggs away....

We had turkeys when I was a kid and we never ate the eggs because we never got that many. The eggs were saved to set under clucky hens not turkeys, dunno why
I don't think they lay too many eggs in their life span
We also had geese and never ate their eggs either, but I know that was something to do with salmonella and the freshness of the eggs. Mum used to cook for shearers and geese eggs were only used to make cakes.
Foxes ate more turkeys than anyone lol
SD xxx

So turkeys dont breed very well....
Is it cause they are ugly....
And dont fancy each other...

Andy must be because they have a face only a mother could love! Aww but they're always welcome at the table Christmas day!!

Mau ;O)

I wonder if their mums...
Know their off spring are ugly....

Of course they don't Andy!! lol they're looking at their loved ones aren't they? ;O))

I can remember having them in bucks ,as a kid ,many years ago,and have seen them for sale outside newcastle on the side of the a 69 and a few other places,but can't remember seeing them in Newcastle itself for a few years.
Havn't seen goose eggs for a long time ,but have to say that i always thought it was duck eggs that were very iffy if not very fresh.Badger.

I live in the country side...
We have goose eggs quite offten...

~~~~~~~waves to Fred~~~~~~~~~ xx :O)

Found this on t'internet -

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 cracking 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.

Just think been a egg....
And the first sight you see...
Is your mother sat on you...