Any guess? We were given these and were very impressed by the size and flavor. Very tasty! One pic shows the comparison to one of our chicken eggs!
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What Eggs Are These?!
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Coreymacc
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Turkey eggs by the looks
Corey
Corey
I believe rooster eggs.
Banjo man out.
Banjo man out.
Cock -a -doodle .
voyager 663rd
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Rooster eggs. It is to laugh 
AFTER A SEARCH:
Why aren't they sold in stores?...
The answer turns out to be a wide combination of factors, all of which together add up to turkey producers pretty much deciding not to bother entering the egg market. For one thing, turkeys lay eggs much less frequently than other birds; a chicken or a duck lays about one egg per day, but a turkey lays at most about two per week. Turkeys are also more expensive to raise in a factory setting, requiring much more space and food than a chicken.
Even worse, turkeys are slow to start laying. “Turkeys have a longer life cycle so they need to get to about 7 months before they are able to produce laying eggs,” says Kimmon Williams of the National Turkey Federation. Chickens only have to reach about 5 months—it may not seem like much, but given that turkeys are also more expensive to house and feed, those extra few months can be costly.
Because of the cost of production and scarcity, turkey eggs tend to be quite a bit more expensive; it just makes more sense to breed more turkeys than to sell their eggs.
AFTER A SEARCH:
Why aren't they sold in stores?...
The answer turns out to be a wide combination of factors, all of which together add up to turkey producers pretty much deciding not to bother entering the egg market. For one thing, turkeys lay eggs much less frequently than other birds; a chicken or a duck lays about one egg per day, but a turkey lays at most about two per week. Turkeys are also more expensive to raise in a factory setting, requiring much more space and food than a chicken.
Even worse, turkeys are slow to start laying. “Turkeys have a longer life cycle so they need to get to about 7 months before they are able to produce laying eggs,” says Kimmon Williams of the National Turkey Federation. Chickens only have to reach about 5 months—it may not seem like much, but given that turkeys are also more expensive to house and feed, those extra few months can be costly.
Because of the cost of production and scarcity, turkey eggs tend to be quite a bit more expensive; it just makes more sense to breed more turkeys than to sell their eggs.
Turkey eggs.
When we had hens we loved their eggs. The wife way prefers to bake with them also.
When we had hens we loved their eggs. The wife way prefers to bake with them also.
Interesting. I assume the farmed turkeys are laying eggs somewhere. There are usually hundreds, if not thousands on commercial farms. That's still a lot of eggs. Do the farmers just let all the eggs hatch? Or possibly consume and sell some to friends?
I'm not a complete city-boy, but we just don't have turkey farms around here.
I'm not a complete city-boy, but we just don't have turkey farms around here.
We are just all independent here… just originally hen produced!
When I'm looking for fresh local eggs on Craigslist, I will occasionally see a few turkey eggs listed from small family farms, but they are always hatching eggs. And those can go for $10-$20 apiece.
You mean to tell me I bought a hen for $600 dollars? My cousin said it was a rare laying rooster! That son of a buck!Ha, soooo close my friend… but not so!
Thanks for the reply Banjo Man!
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