# Why no Turkey eggs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 13, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-turkey-eggs/472522 "2008-11-13T13:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-turkey-eggs/472522/21 "2008-11-14T07:36:54Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > What bird is closest to dinosaurs? Like we mammals have monotremes which lay eggs like lizards (although the montreme eggs and lizards might differ it’s the closest mammals come). What order of birds have eggs closest to dinosaurs? [Here!](http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v5/i2/claws.asp) I kid … [see Hoatzin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-turkey-eggs/472522/22 "2008-11-14T12:09:20Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I assume chickens weren’t originally like the ones we have today. They had to be bred over generations to lay that number of eggs. > > Does a turkey egg taste similar to a chicken egg? If so then it would make no sense to breed them for greater egg production 'cause you could just use more chicken eggs. > > To hijack the thread, what other kind of eggs do people around the world eat? > > I’ve heard of people eating fish eggs and turtle eggs They dont lay any larger number of eggs than the original chicken … one a day. One chicken, 1 egg [more or less. it isnt actually always a 24 hour schedule, and in a group of chickens someone wont be laying on that particular day. Out of our dozen chickens we will get 6 to 8 eggs a day.] ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-turkey-eggs/472522/23 "2008-11-14T12:13:05Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > I can’t believe a male turkey can weigh 80 pounds. That’s incredible. Trust me … we let a few turkeys just continue living, figuring that it was easier to have them walking aorund rather than in the freezer for the next years thanksgiving. One was 42 pounds at about 19 months old, and the other was 44 pounds… the one we chopped and sent to my parents they had cooked in a friends restaraunt chain oven, ours we had to modify the oven to cook. We couldnt put the rack on the little lugs, we had to rest it on bricks in the bottom of the oven, and we had to fabricate a roasting pan. The turkey just wouldnt fit otherwise. We cooked it unstuffed as we felt that it would stay in the danger zone too long with stuffing in. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-turkey-eggs/472522/24 "2008-11-14T13:26:16Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I assume chickens weren’t originally like the ones we have today. They had to be bred over generations to lay that number of eggs. > > Does a turkey egg taste similar to a chicken egg? If so then it would make no sense to breed them for greater egg production 'cause you could just use more chicken eggs. > > To hijack the thread, what other kind of eggs do people around the world eat? > > I’ve heard of people eating fish eggs and turtle eggs Iguana eggs. They are good, although I have almost always had them overcooked to hell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-turkey-eggs/472522.md?page=1)