Harvesting button quail eggs to eat?

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With regards to eating them, I find they taste just like chicken eggs. You can boil them by putting them in a container and pouring boiling water over them - I usually change the water for a new boiling load after a few minutes, to make sure the yolk is not runny, and then leave them for maybe 10 minutes.
Recently I served them as tiny fried eggs for guests - they were very popular.

It doesn't matter if they are fertile or not - as long as they haven't been incubated.

I've actually never had a button egg 'go bad'. What happens as they get older is they lose moisture. If you put them in water, they will float. I think it takes around 14 days for mine to start floating. But even once they do float, there is actually nothing wrong with them. I boil them to feed them to my birds when they get to this point, but they smell, look and taste totally fine - there is just less egg and more air in the shell. If they get very, very old, the contents will dry up completely and there will just be a small mass of yellow matter in them, like dried up paint. I suppose the yolk might get discolored or start running into the white or something before this point is reached, but I have never opened one that had such issues. However, I usually toss them if they are so light I don't need to put them in water to tell they'll float.
 
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With regards to eating them, I find they taste just like chicken eggs. You can boil them by putting them in a container and pouring boiling water over them - I usually change the water for a new boiling load after a few minutes, to make sure the yolk is not runny, and then leave them for maybe 10 minutes.
Recently I served them as tiny fried eggs for guests - they were very popular.

It doesn't matter if they are fertile or not - as long as they haven't been incubated.

I've actually never had a button egg 'go bad'. What happens as they get older is they lose moisture. If you put them in water, they will float. I think it takes around 14 days for mine to start floating. But even once they do float, there is actually nothing wrong with them. I boil them to feed them to my birds when they get to this point, but they smell, look and taste totally fine - there is just less egg and more air in the shell. If they get very, very old, the contents will dry up completely and there will just be a small mass of yellow matter in them, like dried up paint. I suppose the yolk might get discolored or start running into the white or something before this point is reached, but I have never opened one that had such issues. However, I usually toss them if they are so light I don't need to put them in water to tell they'll float.
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Small breakfast plate. Lol. Actually, I have never eaten my button eggs. I refrigerate them for about a week and break them open to give to my dogs. I crush the shells really fine and give them to the chickens and back to the buttons as grit.
 

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