# Turkey eggs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-eggs/308622 "2005-06-16T23:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Studs\_Murphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Studs\_Murphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studs_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-eggs/308622/1 "2005-06-16T23:39:19Z")
I’ve seen hen eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, quail eggs, plover eggs, ostrich eggs - even sturgeon eggs. Why no turkey eggs? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-eggs/308622/2 "2005-06-16T23:53:28Z")
I can buy turkey eggs at the local farm shop; possible reasons for them not being on wider sale: -They really aren’t all that different to hen eggs in size, flavour and appearance (the white is whiter - that’s about it) -I suspect they aren’t produced in the same sort of quantity; turkeys are bred to be meat-producing machines, chickens are bred either for meat or eggs, but not both. (see also [this](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980306b.html)) -And (This is the reason I personally won’t bother buying them again) The shell is really quite thick and hard to break, when it _is_ broken, the edges have a tendency to crumble and you end up with gritty bits of shell in your egg. The membrane inside the shell is quite tough and leathery; breaking through this usually results in rupturing the yolk - which, as a lover of fried egg sandwiches, I can only describe as disastrous. ---
**Author:** ![Studs\_Murphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Studs\_Murphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studs_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-eggs/308622/3 "2005-06-17T00:02:08Z")
Very interesting. This - and the link - answer all my questions. And here I was thinking that probably nobody had asked that before! :wally Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-eggs/308622/4 "2005-06-25T17:23:09Z")
My mother asked this question once, and I remember web searching for an answer. If I recall, one of the reasons was the taste is a little gamey for North American sensibilities, among other reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-eggs/308622/5 "2005-06-25T17:58:33Z")
The perfect master addressed this in the past. [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980306b.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980306b.html) > **[Turkey eggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=129212)** > > Why don’t people eat turkey eggs? Are they commercially available anywhere? Also discussed in this thread ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-eggs/308622/6 "2005-06-25T18:41:31Z")
Actually, it’s all a big cover-up. The truth is that modern turkeys have been genetically engineered to reproduce by binary fission.