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Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: hectic on July 02, 2008, 15:09

Title: Naive question about turkeys
Post by: hectic on July 02, 2008, 15:09

Apologies this is probably the wrong forum to post this in but is a question thats bugged me for ages. You can buy chicken, duck,goose even ostrich eggs but you never see turkey eggs why is that?

I've lurked in this forum for a while enjoying your chook keeping exploits so many thanks in advance  :)

Title: Naive question about turkeys
Post by: Vember on July 02, 2008, 16:20

Hi Hectic

Welcome to the Hen House :)

I was once told it is basically through supply & demand, people only want Turkeys for Christmas time food and not their eggies.

Not sure myself really, think the other thing with Turkeys to get babies they have to artifically do "The Doo"  so maybe that is another reason all the turkey eggs are used up makin babies  :lol:

Would be intresting to find out proper though :)

Title: Naive question about turkeys
Post by: kimT on July 02, 2008, 17:06

My local shop sells turkey eggs and my friend sells her turkey eggs to me and they is just yummy................very creamy and they are fab for baking your sponge cakes with too.

Title: Naive question about turkeys
Post by: Bodger on July 02, 2008, 17:33

Turkeys tend not to lay too many eggs and those that they lay  are wanted so that they can be hatched into chicks that are kept for meat production.

Title: Re: Naive question about turkeys
Post by: babe on July 03, 2008, 00:52

Quote from: "hectic"

Apologies this is probably the wrong forum to post this in but is a question thats bugged me for ages. You can buy chicken, duck,goose even ostrich eggs but you never see turkey eggs why is that?

I've lurked in this forum for a while enjoying your chook keeping exploits so many thanks in advance  :)

ooooo what a wonderful question. it had never occured to me before. :?

Title: Naive question about turkeys
Post by: hectic on July 03, 2008, 09:08

Thanks for your replys everyone, much appreciated - you learn sommat new every day 8)