This morning, as I was preparing a delicious egg breakfast for Jon, it occurred to me that I've never seen a turkey egg. I started to wonderif people eat turkey eggs. So I looked online to see what I could find out about the production and consumption of turkey eggs.
Here is what I learned:
Turkey eggs are almost twice as large as ordinary chicken eggs. They have a pale creamy-tan color, with dark brown speckles. The huge yolk is golden-orange in color.
Turkeys don't lay as many eggs as chickens making their eggs impractical to package and market.
Turkey eggs are mostly used for hatching more turkeys.
In case you were wondering about cultivating your own turkey eggs, I also learned that it's not exactly legal to keep wild turkeys for the purposes of laying eggs and it's not legal to eat those eggs.
Some sources say that turkey eggs are not that pleasant tasting while others said they taste better than chicken eggs - but that's pretty useless information.
Basically turkey eggs are not available commercially for eating.
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