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Zinjanthropos
Jan 20, 2021 03:52 PM
Turkey eggs. I like chicken and turkey for eating but all I ever see at the store is chicken eggs. As usual I wondered why and checked Google. From Live Science:
Chickens start reproducing early and pump out more eggs than turkeys. ... The larger size of turkey eggs requires more room to nest, which takes up too much space in a coop. Economically, meat from a grown turkey bird is much more valuable than an extra large fried egg.
Should have known, money talks. Somewhere, some place, someone must sell them.
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C C
Jan 20, 2021 07:59 PM
Don't wait on smaller guinea eggs, either. The shells are so tough that even after a year, instead of exploding from gas build-up, any rotten yolk inside seems to just dry up from frustration. Often a concrete floor won't break them when they fall.
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Zinjanthropos
Jan 20, 2021 08:34 PM
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(Jan 20, 2021 07:59 PM)C C Wrote: Don't wait on smaller guinea eggs, either. The shells are so tough that even after a year, instead of exploding from gas build-up, any rotten yolk inside seems to just dry up from frustration. Often a concrete floor won't break them when they fall.
Would chickens produce more eggs if they were in the wild, without human intervention?
Quote:IEC analyst
Van Horne said average consumption per person, based on dividing the world population in 2018 of 7.6bn people by the number of eggs produced, worked out at 161 eggs per person per year.
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(Jan 20, 2021 08:34 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: (Jan 20, 2021 07:59 PM)C C Wrote: Don't wait on smaller guinea eggs, either. The shells are so tough that even after a year, instead of exploding from gas build-up, any rotten yolk inside seems to just dry up from frustration. Often a concrete floor won't break them when they fall.
Would chickens produce more eggs if they were in the wild, without human intervention?
No, they wouldn't be fed regularly and amply enough. Jungle fowl are smaller and more agile than most domestic chickens. The latter have been bred for continuous egg-laying traits over centuries and millennia. Domestic chickens could not survive if released into the wild, either, especially in winter or cold climes. Easy prey for predators. Jungle fowl are at least adapted for survival in rain forests and tropical island habitat.
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