# Quail Eggs, Duck Eggs, Turkey Eggs Etc **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492 "2013-04-23T14:15:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/1 "2013-04-23T14:15:24Z")
I had breakfast the other day with a co-worker and we had quail eggs and duck eggs. Honestly they taste just like chicken eggs to me, but then again I was the one who can’t tell different kinds of lentils apart. So is there a difference to any of you between the kind of eggs people eat? I have thus far only had chicken eggs, quail eggs and duck eggs. Any other kinds of eggs have people tried and were they like chicken eggs in taste? ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/2 "2013-04-23T14:18:57Z")
I’ve had hard boiled quail eggs. They are denser and have a more yolky, richer taste than chicken eggs IMHO. However, they are similar to grain raised chicken eggs, which tend to have richer, more yellow yolks, so I assume it has more to do with the way they are raised than the species. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/3 "2013-04-23T14:28:05Z")
Have had chicken, duck, turkey, quail, and goose eggs. An over easy goose egg is a sight to see, covering the entire plate. Taste wise, duck and goose eggs taste slightly “richer” but blindfolded I do not know if I could tell bites of scrambled egg apart by species. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/4 "2013-04-23T14:57:07Z")
Ostrich eggs taste like chicken eggs, _possibly_ a little richer but I’ve only had them scrambled so it’s hard to tell. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/5 "2013-04-23T14:59:20Z")
I prefer duck eggs over chicken eggs, duck eggs taste more ‘eggy’ to me. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/6 "2013-04-23T15:10:50Z")
I had a scrambled goose egg(layed that morning) recently. It was tasty and pretty normal but a little richer than a chicken egg. **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/7 "2013-04-23T15:12:10Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I’ve had hard boiled quail eggs. They are denser and have a more yolky, richer taste than chicken eggs IMHO. However, they are similar to grain raised chicken eggs, which tend to have richer, more yellow yolks, so I assume it has more to do with the way they are raised than the species. Really? I’ve always been disappointed by the grain-raised chicken eggs. The ones that I find rich and deep yellow-orange are the pastured eggs. Chickens gotta eat the bugs and all that other stuff to get all that good flavor. As for the difference between the eggs in the OP, duck eggs are quite rich compared with chicken eggs. The description of “more eggy” is apt. Quail eggs I’ve only had a few times, usually in appetizers, and, from what I remember, they were similar to chicken eggs, except maybe with a firmer white. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/8 "2013-04-23T19:06:09Z")
I’ve had several kinds of eggs and can’t really tell the difference. I got 5 dozen eggs from my friend who has chickens the other day. The eggs are various sizes and colors. Some of the eggs are marked in pencil as being duck but they are about the same size as the chicken eggs. If I erase the pencil marks, I can’t tell any difference. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/9 "2013-04-23T19:49:56Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I prefer duck eggs over chicken eggs, duck eggs taste more ‘eggy’ to me. This was my experience the one time I had a duck egg (sunny-side-up, served atop spaetzel); I even described it as “more eggy.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/10 "2013-04-23T20:51:20Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > This was my experience the one time I had a duck egg (sunny-side-up, served atop spaetzel); I even described it as “more eggy.” I find more variation between free range and caged hen eggs than between hen and duck. In the spring/summer/fall when our hens are producing tons of eggs I eat one or more a day. In the winter, we buy a dozen eggs from the supermarket for cooking and wind up feeding some to the dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/11 "2013-04-23T20:54:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I find more variation between free range and caged hen eggs than between hen and duck. > > In the spring/summer/fall when our hens are producing tons of eggs I eat one or more a day. In the winter, we buy a dozen eggs from the supermarket for cooking and wind up feeding some to the dogs. It could have been this as well; it was a very farm-to-table type of restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quail-eggs-duck-eggs-turkey-eggs-etc/656492/12 "2013-04-25T11:21:57Z")
I’ve tried duck and quail eggs and found that quail eggs are very cute but similar to chickens’ and duck eggs had an unpleasant hint of lake, though that could have been psychosomatic.