Eggs of all shapes and sizes and your thoughts, please

[bootsuu]

Hi All!

I just recently started strolling through the world of eggs outside those of chickens and 'caviar' by picking up a dozen duck eggs for $5 from a lady a few miles away. I was really impressed with the size and taste of duck eggs and I want to try more exotic options. I've always been fascinated by ostrich eggs, but I doubt I'd be able to get any for eating.

What's your favorite non-chicken egg to eat? Do you have a supplier that I might be able to contact to get some? What's the best method of serving your exotic eggs of choice? The lady I bought my duck eggs from insisted I have french toast first thing, which I did.

Anyone have a supplier of larger eggs like emu or ostrich? Any eggs I should completely avoid?

Thanks!

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

Don't know about a supplier but around here if its an egg you eat it. We just hard boiled goose eggs that were sitting in the refrigerator. I use duck eggs for cooking all the time. Turkey eggs are good too but I find the yoke is alittle harder to scramble. If you want really great cakes or pies go with duck eggs.

 

[bootsuu]

I'd love to get my hands on large bird eggs. Are there any layers beyond ducks and chickens that lay often enough to be as profitable for eating as for breeding? I always thought the lack of emu / ostrich eggs was because they didn't lay that often so people with these birds would be trying to get as many fertile eggs as possible.

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

I don't know about those eggs but geese only lay for a few months each year. My geese started laying in March and are still laying every other day or so. I don't want any more of this particular breed so we are enjoying the eggs. My son in law loves them in his energy drinks. Last year I was getting about 17 eggs a month from three geese. It was their first year and I wouldn't have hatched them anyway as I was told to wait a year by the breeder. My mother in law enjoyed every one of them. Shes gone this year so we started cooking them ourselves.