Guinea eggs - mmm-mmm good!

[TexGardenGirl]

Our guineas just started laying last weekend, so this morning we finally had accumulated 6 eggs (from 3 hens) and did the taste test. Wow, they are good! The yolks are as big as a chicken egg, so there's a lot less white, and the yolks are even more orange than our free-range chickens are (could be that the chickens still eat more prepared feed but the guineas roam a lot more.) They are definitely harder to crack - they have thicker membranes as well as a thicker shell. The taste is pretty much the same, just more intense than a chicken egg. All in all very satisfying. Now if we can just get them to stay in the yard...

 

[zazouse]

Yes mam they are good and i love them hard boiled and pickled.

 

[BAMACK2]

Hard boiled for me

 

[beesong]

I like mine hatched!

 

[zazouse]

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Me too but i have more than i can hatch so i eatem.

 

[beesong]

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Me too but i have more than i can hatch so i eatem.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e149/zazousemoon206/farm/spring/075.jpg

You have enough to bale and sell by the ton!

 

[PeepsCA]

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Me too but i have more than i can hatch so i eatem.

Zaz... Your egg pics blow my mind

Just curious, how many Guinea Hens do you have? And how often to you collect the eggs?
That's an amazing egg collection, what a bunch of work tho, lol.

 

[zazouse]

I don't know how many i have they are totaly free ranged so i have no way of counting but i do know i have more than 88
hens from the amount of eggs i collect in certain nest every 5 days.
there are some nest i have yet to locate and i do need to get to them and make sure they are not sitting ,i have 6 setting in the brush in the front of my yard,they are safe there ,my dogs make sure of that.

 

[PeepsCA]

LOL! Wow... and then add boyfriends for all those Hens, I can't even imagine the sound when they all fire of the alarm call!

 

[BAMACK2]

Wow