Honestly, the thought has never crossed my mind until now.

I have Turkeys and love to eat Turkey eggs the only difficult thing is the eggshell has a thick membrane inside and you nearly need a knife to cut it. Don’t expect to crack a Turkey shell with one hand and just pour out the egg into the skillet. It just takes more effort than that. Oh, and Turkey eggs taste like chicken eggs👍

My whole life, I’ve never thought about turkeys laying eggs… until this video. My whole 43 years on this planet and this is the first time I’ve ever heard or considered this question.

I saw the title and was like "Wait......why DON'T we eat them?!" Come to find out we DO eat them, but they're not nearly as profitable as chicken eggs. Today I learned.

I'll admit, I have never even considered this question....

KZfaq algorithm giving me videos I never knew I wanted to see.

Growing up, in my grandparents' farm, my grandma used to cook the best scramble turkey eggs! Missed that beautiful lady every day!

Thank you for making this a 5-minute video rather than a 20-minute video.

As a kid we raised chickens ducks and geese. I had the honor of egg collecting every morning. I would have to use an aluminum trashcan lid as a shield to get the goose eggs. They were fighters.

Since there is virtually no market for $3 eggs, farmers opt to raise their turkeys for meat rather than eggs and use their hens' eggs for producing more turkeys rather than for consumption.

We had turkeys,ducks, geese, and chickens. They all taste the same if they are fed the same food. The duck, turkey and goose eggs have a tougher shell,s and tougher egg white. They dont do well boiled, but if you beat it with a liquid, like water or mild, they make great omlets, scrambled eggs and are perfect in baked goods! As a kid, many years ago, I went from door to sell eggs to earn money to buy a bike. Many of my customers loved the duck and turkey eggs and looked forward to my deliveries.

I can honestly say in my 37 years I've never thought about eating a turkey egg...now i want to try one

I grew up eating turkey eggs at my grandparents for a time when Grandpa had turkeys. I absolutely loved them! It's a great memory for me Grandma making me breakfast. And they were big too.

Turkey eggs are great they bigger, almost twice the size, and creamier than chicken eggs - pretty similar to Duck eggs (I prefer the Duck eggs its tastier). It's a myth they only produce 3 a week once the initial laying starts they produce at the same rate as a chicken hen, once a day. The yolk is in a larger proportion to the white than a chicken egg so if you prefer that you're in luck. If you're a body builder and eat eggs for the white maybe stick to chickens. The shells are quite a bit stronger, you can drop them and they won't break and when you do crack them open the yolk rarely bursts because it has a thicker membrane to protect it. There's really no reason other than the fact we're used to chicken eggs that we don't eat them and its a pity because if we did the price would be cheaper cent for cent - there's much less wastage. Unlike chicken eggs where I always feel I need at least 2 to make it a worthwhile breakfast you only need the one. Give them a go you'd be surprised I bet someone in your wider neighborhood has them.

A guy I worked with back in 1980 loved eggs for Breakfast and was told by a Dr to only eat 1-2 a day so he went to a hatchery and got turkey eggs and they were huge...

We raise Royal palm turkeys, we use turkey eggs when we bake bread and cakes, as they are best for baking, more than just as a breakfast omelet. We also bring turkey eggs to our local auction and get a pretty darn good price for them.

When I was a kid, many years ago, we lived in a rural area where there were many small farms. One of them raised a few dozen turkeys and had turkey eggs for sale. My folks bought a number of turkey eggs and everything in this video described them perfectly. We used them in meals where we would normally use chicken eggs and they did have a slightly richer taste. I liked them and was always glad to see them arriving at our house. These days, we have a neighbor who raises some domestic turkeys. Last year, a wild turkey hen showed up and mated with one of her Toms. That resulted in seeing her strutting around our rural neighborhood, followed by 9 or 10 chicks. It was amazing at just how fast they grew! We see and hear them from time to time and they seem to be used to being around people.

I've had turkey eggs before, they taste delicious . I got the eggs from a church friend who sold eggs from both his chicken and turkeys. Although he didn't have many turkeys so there wouldn't be many eggs from them.

My childhood farm experience also informs my reasoning. Turkeys were more agressive to giving up their eggs. We raised chickens, turkeys, geese, quail, and Guinea hens for market and turkeys were the most agressive.

Hey, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 here! Great video! Wow, never did it ever cross my mind to eat turkey eggs. I can't be the only one feeling like a fool. Thanks for the info! 💚💛❤️

I grew up on a turkey farm with well over 5,000 head. It produces some of the best-tasting eggs, and an angel food cake from it is fantastic.

I'm 78 and just ate my first turkey egg this year.

When I was a kid, my father always bought a fresh turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas directly from the farm. He would pick a live turkey and the farmer would decapitate it and hang it to drain the blood for an hour before it was brought home. The turkey would then be plucked and cleaned at home. During that process, several eggs were often discovered within. Dad always saved the eggs and enjoyed them for breakfast the next morning. The rest of the family never indulged in the eggs. They were Dad's treat for the hard work of plucking, cleaning and cooking the turkey. We never said grace at the table without giving a special "thank you" to the turkey.

It is common to eat chicken eggs.But you can eat any type of egg you want

Yes we do. My grandmother used to sell them for eating during the depression.

For a while, a local homeless shelter was receiving free turkey eggs from local turkey farmers. They were just viewed as a useless byproduct and the farmers called the shelter and offered them.

I've been wondering this for years, but could never find an answer from a reliable source before this. Thank You!

I’ve raised turkeys for over 30 years and hens can lay eggs 1 year old. I eat some in spring and hatch others. Super fun animal to have on your farm.

Next stop: Ostrich eggs. After that: crocodile eggs. Final destination: dinosaur eggs.

Had turkeys at our little farm in Sweden when I was young and we consumed their eggs constantly together with duck and hen eggs.

We know someone who raises turkeys and he brought us some turkey eggs recently. We liked them.

My grandfather raised turkeys. At Easter he would poke holes in the top and bottom of the egg and blow the contents out into a bowl. Then we would color the eggs and when they were dry he would hang them from the Chandelier in the dining room. My grandmother used the eggs for baking and scrambling.

When I was a kid in the 50s we raised turkeys(up to 4000 a year) almost as a crop as demand was very seasonal. We “planted” the eggs in an incubator in the spring and shipped them out (frozen and ready to cook) in the fall. We never ate the eggs whole but angel food cake from turkey egg whites was a staple on the table. I didn’t appreciate that angel food cake was somewhat special until years later.

They say the same thing about duck eggs...for a couple years, when i was a kid, we had more ducks than chickens, and the chicken eggs were sold to the neighbours...which meant that we ate duck eggs. A lot. And used them for cooking. A lot. Way better than chick eggs, except for the shell, especially for baking...whatever it is that eggs do for cakes and quiche and bread, ducks do it better than chickens. My Mum was a victim of her own marketing...every neighbour that was appalled at the thought of eating a duck egg was finally convinced to try them...and then they prefered those to chicken eggs. So, we were back to eating the chicken eggs and selling the duck eggs. Of course, all of this was contrary to Agriculture Canada regs.

My grandmother raised guinie fowl in addition to chickens. I often ate guinie fowl eggs which are slightly smaller than chicken eggs and with a milder flavor.

We had turkeys when I was a kid and we ate their eggs all the time. But I guess I never thought of buying turkey eggs to eat them.

In the book, "Once Upon a Town: Miracle of the North Platte Canteen," people used turkey eggs to bake cakes for our soldiers during WWII because they went further than chicken eggs and whipped up nicely for cakes.

I used to go to a farmers’ market about 30 miles away where one seller had pastured eggs, mostly chicken eggs but a limited supply of duck and turkey eggs. Then the seller stopped showing up. The duck eggs were by far the best, but the turkey eggs were nicely big and different enough in flavor from chicken eggs that they made an interesting change from the usual.

I bought a dozen turkey chicks at Runnings this spring. My wife had absolutely no idea that turkeys lay eggs. Body builders actually love turkey eggs.

My dad LOVED all kinda birds and we had lots….chicken, ducks, geese and caged birds….doves, parakeets, cocktails and homing pigeons which were able to fly around durning the day. I found that the larger the bird, the stronger the yoke tasted. We got 5 baby turkeys once, but the neighbor’s cat ate an early thanksgiving dinner. We even got 5 pea fowl, but only one hen lasted. She was a trooper by laying a clutch of eggs and sitting on them. Dad felt bad and was going to put some chicken eggs under her so she could hatch something, but he never did. Miss my dad and his birds

I'd like to put my two cents worth in. First I have eaten turkey duck goose and chicken eggs. Some of the flavour has to do with their diet but overall I would say the chicken eggs are the mildest. Second turkeys if you only have a few love to follow you around the yard because they really attached to you. Third I've had turkey set clutches on me and because sometimes some of the moms will all in the same nest I've had a turkey hen hatch up to maybe 20 babies although I've rarely seen them survive in that amount. I supplement my birds with a little bit of grain but very little most of the stuff they get they get around the yard bugs grass and so on. So they're not that expensive to raise because they pretty much raised themselves. Luckily there's always enough rescue dogs around here to keep the coyotes and foxes at bae. I have had all's take for the younger ones off their roofs at night when they Roost in the trees as they would prefer to be outside when it's warm rather than back into the coop. If you wish to raise turkeys get the smaller bronze ones they are very Hardy to survive and they will lay clutches of eggs for you for example I have had good luck with the Artesian gold. Good luck everybody and I love this little presentation thank you for doing it

The biggest problem I found is having big enough cartons to hold the eggs. They don't fit normal egg cartons. I did find that they make a great protein supplement for my chickens during molting(moulting) season. When a chicken molts, they stop laying eggs because their body concentrates the protein on building feathers instead of eggs. Adding more protein to their diet helps ease the process and they'll keep laying eggs. Yes, I feed them scrambled eggs. I also bake and pulverize the shells into a powder and infuse it with the scrambled eggs to help the chickens lay eggs with harder shells.

Growing up there was a turkey hatchery outside of town that sold eggs to us. As eggs they didn't want were very often the doulble yokers we got bonus. Particularly good for making cakes or pancakes a richer yellow. Yum !

Thank you for broadening my horizons!

QUICK ANSWER ... Turkey are seasonal layers. They do not lay enough eggs to cover the cost of maintaining the turkey. Most turkey eggs are hatched because meat is more valuable. I sell turkey eggs... Usually as hatching eggs because most people don't want to pay the $6 per egg price tag just to eat it. BTW... Eggs are fresh because they are gathered daily by me. Not collected by the turkey.

I think Wild Turkeys are absolutely Beautiful, especially when the Sunlight is revealing all the beautiful iridescent colors and ALL the other colors. They are beautiful, especially wild in their Indigenous habitat where you can appreciate how they can both blend in as well as show off and all the other cool things they do.

Interesting! Never entered my mind to ask the question! Thankyou for the answer!

Never thought about it... And thanks, this is something to keep in mind.

When we raised chickens, we also had turkeys. A close friend has a chicken allergy (and many others) so they would get turkey eggs and goat milk from us. It was nice to see a teenager eat scrambled eggs for the first time, or eat ice cream for the first time (thanks to the goat milk). They do taste like chicken eggs (at least when they eat the same foods) but are quite a bit larger.

I have eaten Turkey eggs many times and they taste amazing.🇬🇧

Kinda hard to expect people to have a market for it when it is never offered as an option in the first place.

So we don’t eat turkey eggs coz we don’t eat turkey eggs.

We have turkeys. The hens are actually meat breeds that we actually just have as "pets". They've just started laying eggs. We have a heritage breed tom... Maybe we'll hatch some? Haven't decided. We also have chickens and get LOTS of eggs from them. With the current situation it's more profitable to save the chicken eggs for selling and use our turkey eggs for our own consumption. In some places turkey eggs might be worth something but it's hard to find someone willing to get past their inhibition's about eating eggs from another critter.

Anyone that has eaten Turkey eggs will agree they taste far much better than any chicken eggs you will ever find.

Very good video, thank you. I've never raised turkeys, so haven't thought much about eating their eggs. I have raised geese and have tried their eggs. Hard to crack, rubbery whites and yolks, don't taste all that great, don't work well in baking because they change the texture of the cake, cookies, etc. You didn't talk about using turkey eggs in baking. I imagine they'd be all right and better than goose eggs.

Quail eggs are great. You can get them at the supermarket here and they are cute teeny tiny eggs.

Things I never knew I needed to know. . . Extremely interesting. Thank you much for this entertaining video!

My mom used turkey eggs for decades. Once she learned the turkey farmers in her area tossed many of the eggs she asked if she could buy some and those wonderful folks just collected them for her and refused to take any payment for them ... though she'd gift them with her baked goods which is what she used most of them for. She said 1 turkey egg = 3 chicken eggs and I thought they were quite beautiful myself. The video didn't capture it but those dark golden spots on the eggs are almost metallic looking in reality and make the eggs look quite pretty.

I get my eggs from one of my patients, he’s a farmer. Usually I get chicken eggs from him, but recently he gave me 18 turkey eggs. I have been loving them, but cracking them into the pan is a pain sometimes.

I was raised on a farm here in KY. We kept a few chickens and Mom kept a few wild turkeys that she had incubator hatched from eggs found in a fence row. Most turned out to be hens but there were a couple of Toms. One Turkey hen had taken up living with the chickens instead of the other turkeys. That Turkey hen would roost in the hen house at night while the rest of the turkeys took up roosting in the tobacco barn at night and they roamed freely around the farm. She laid eggs almost as often as the chickens did, the other Turkey hens did not, at least we never found any from the other hens. The only thing we could think of was that the turkey hen that stayed with the chickens ate laying mash daily and the others didn't. I've tried scrambled turkey eggs and they're strong, not very good IMO. But Mom used them when baking cakes and corn bread and it made no difference in the taste of those items.

You can easily buy turkey eggs for eating at farmer market stalls in Germany.

This is a very interesting video, I've always been curious about turkey eggs.

I was mind blown that people in the US and Canada labeled eggs that are not "chicken eggs" as wild/game, in my country you can eat duck eggs and quail eggs on a daily basis because its commonly sold on the street.

So.... the answer is... Because we don't.

In the Andean states of Venezuela there is a traditional soup called Pisca. It contains potatoes, onions, green onions, sweet peppers, cilantro and eggs. Sometimes it may contain milk. The name of the dish comes from the fact that in the old days it was prepared with Turkey eggs, being Pisca or Pava the female and Pisco or Pavo the male. Nowadays it can be prepared with chicken eggs.

My Step Dad grew up on a farm that had a separate Turkey Farm. The sole purpose of that farm was turkey eggs for normal turkey farms. This was 50-60 years ago, so somethings have probably changed. It was still in operation when I was a kid and would help my Uncle every once in a while. We'd get eggs too. I don't recall any significant difference compared to chicken eggs. They grew eggs for Jerome Foods, which was bought out by Jenni-o many years ago. That was about the time the Farm shut down. The large companies probably keep all that in house now, controlling their supply chain and all that. There is bound to be some independent growers around still, that grow eggs and hatchlings for small farms.

Here in the UK we eat hens and duck eggs, quails eggs, goose eggs and some places even sell ostrich eggs, but never heard of anybody eating turkey eggs.

I was walking down my very long drive way and in a pot hole was a wite egg with brown speckles. Knew it couldnt be a chicken egg my checkens dont venture out that far. At first I assumed it was a dud and was going to chuck it. Glad I didnt. Got it back up to the house looked it up and sure enough turkey egg. We put it in the incubator and my wife is holding the chick as we speak. I named him Roady. The next day after finding that egg, my dad finds another. He is pipping right now. Guess I will call him Broady. Broady and Roady. I dont know what the laws are on hatching wild eggs but I dont really care either. Something is alive now that would have got squashed by a car. We are going to bond with the chicks and treat them like farm dogs same as we do our geese. Hoping I got two bucks, but getting a female would be great too. More babies!

i had never considered this question but then immediately needed to know the answer. great video concept. might have to find me some turkey eggs.

This dude really said turkeys aren’t the prettiest birds… meanwhile he thinks chickens are 😂💀 turkeys are beautiful bro

Actually I used to eat them when I was young. No thing wrong.

My grandfather was a turkey rancher and he actually sold the turkey eggs!!! I have very faint memories but one I do remember is my grandmother packaging the eggs in cartons and stamping them. I don’t know other details or who he sold the eggs to. But this brought back memories

without watching, my guess is that Turkeys have only been domesticated for a few hundred years and chickens for many thousands and chickens have been highly optimized to be efficient egg layers as well as requiring less food to sustain them. So economically, it'd be a lot cheaper to run a chicken farm than a turkey farm if your goal is egg production.

Ive never even thought about turkèy eggs ever.😮

That was real informative, thank you. Living out in the country I'll bet I could get some turkey eggs for sale! But I was wrong about them, I thought they were too high in cholesterol! Now I got to try turkey eggs! Thank you, I love new foods!

What do farmers do with the eggs then?

My daughter raised chickens, but she just gave the eggs away. Not worth selling them. Your discussion makes eminent sense.

I've had goose eggs. Huge! I suppose the reason they're not in stores is similar.

We get them sometimes in central Oregon, delish!

KZfaq answering questions I've never asked but feel like I should have. 😂

Back in the sixties, our local agricultural college sold turkey eggs in season. Delicious.I think I will see if they still do that.

I grew up on a turkey farm...turkey eggs are the only kind of eggs our family ever ate... 😋

I think a more reasonable explanation for lower demand for turkey eggs vs. chicken eggs is ease of use. Domestic turkeys eggs usually require a utensil to crack open without demolishing the yolk.

I live next to a turkey farmer. He gets 18,000 male turkeys 4 times a year at one day old. Raises them for 20 weeks. They grow to 45-50 lbs. Turkey eggs are in great numbers but used for more turkeys.

My friend raises chickens and turkeys, she gave me 4 turkey eggs. They taste like chicken eggs, they are harder to whip into an omelet, the membrane is stiffer.

I've always wondered this! Thanks for the video.

I've wondered about this too! When my turkey started laying, it was the first time seeing a turkey egg. I'd always kept chickens, and have inly had a couple of toms in the past. I was too afraid to eat the turkey eggs, but on Thanksgiving I was making a pumpkin pie, but had run out of eggs...except for a lone turkey egg. So i used it, and the pie was good! (My turkey was probably glad it was only her egg that got used on Thanksgiving 😂). I'm still shiddish about just scrambling them up and eating them, but my kids like them. I just cant get past the prehistoric, dinosaur look of them, lol. 😂

In the 50's my parents bought boxes of turkey eggs from a local turkey farm. The shells were thick but worth the work. The eggs were very large and on a regular the yolks were either double and sometimes triple yolk. Our cakes were big and fluffy and omelette light and fluffy. My parents are alive well. That was good eating

I remember the first egg Linda laid, she turned around and looked confused. My dad took it inside. She laid another one a few days later. So my dad started eating turkey egg omelettes a couple times a week. I fried them up before, they’re good. They’re better than chicken eggs, but then again she ate well.

I’m eating a peacock egg sandwich while watching this

I live in Arkansas and we have lots and lots of turkeys, think Tyson foods. I eat turkey eggs on a regular basis and have a dozen in my fridge right now. Had two this am. I get them from a woman who raises chickens and turkeys for eggs and sells them. Her sister works for me and gives them to me on a regular basis as they are laying. They are delicious. They are hard to get into. Shell is thicker and you just hit it harder that's all for the shell. The more complex part is the inner lining that surrounds the white and yolk. That is one tough membrane and getting used to breaking it without breaking the yolk takes practice. So I scrambled eggs a lot more then frying them at first or omletts. If you can get them, get them they are very good and nothing like duck eggs at all. Duck eggs are fishy tasting because ducks EAT fish. Turkeys eat same things as chickens. Which means turkey good, duck bad. Unless you're in eastern Arkansas duck hunting and run across some, then worth eating at camp for a change of pace.

Everyday, I learn something new. I never gave Turkey eggs a thought until this video.

We ate them all the time when I was in HS. Part of the farm was renterd out to a turkey farm, and when they gathered the eggs, the 'null' eggs, we got at the house. MOre than we could eat, but we did eat them..a LOT. The excess from what we coould eat, we mixed with ground corn and fed the hogs. (BTW, they are about twice the size of chicken eggs)

I'd love to try them because I love duck eggs. One duck egg makes the creamiest egg sandwiches.

I would much rather wait until the egg grows up, then eat the turkey! With stuffing, mashed potatoes, and gravy!

Factory Farming aims for optimization and homogenization, which is why American egg producers use basically one breed of chicken (and no other fowl) and at the grocery store there are typically only ever white eggs and of a specific size.

It's only clickbait if it doesn't work on me, I love this

Thank you! I finally have answers to a question I have often pondered!

I saw a wild male turkey last week, it looks as if he was searching for either a place to nest or a mate. Probably both

I used to work on a turkey farm many years ago. Though we were rearing them for meat, plenty of eggs were laid by the flocks and we were allowed to take the eggs home if we so wished. Strangely, only a few of us did. Many were appalled at the idea of doing so. During the 5 years I worked there we hardly ever needed to buy chicken eggs.