Pigeon Egg Omelet

[Mary Of Exeter]

I'm sure if you mix them up really well with some other eggs, you'll never know.

 

[olayak]

http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/f5/is-it-ok-to-eat-my-pigeon-eggs-59772.html

plenty of people eat pigeon eggs. they are like quail eggs. There is even an amazing recipe at the above link. With soy sauce and sherry. I've never personally eaten them, but I have a pigeon loft and I have considered it.

 

[Faith SL]

Many of my female pigeons lay eggs in a corner of the loft floor even without a mate or designated nesting area seemingly out of boredom of finding something to do when in the loft (even though 9/10 of them get plenty of outdoor time and exercise, silly birds

). Although many of these eggs are infertile, I don't want to simply throw them away and waste them when they are in good condition. I don't eat the eggs personally, but I give them to family members and neighbors and they seem to like eating the eggs so far. From what I have heard from them, the eggs don't taste or react much different than chicken eggs in cooking except the whites are a bit more clear and 'rubbery' when the eggs are fully cooked.

I would imagine pigeon eggs would be much harder to boil and cook in the shell due to the shell being so thin. Someone with more delicate taste buds might be able to accurately pinpoint the pros and cons of eating pigeon eggs, but from what I have heard fresh pigeon eggs are quite edible, just... different.

 

[jak2002003]

I eat the eggs!!!!! They taste exactly like EGGS

I have eaten many kinds of eggs. The all taste the same, but some more creams and others richer. Here is the list of the eggs I have eaten so far.........

Chicken
Duck
Goose
Pigeon
Ringneck dove (this was by accident as I mixed it with my young bantam eggs when collecting and my partner cooked the lot together.
Ostrich - made a huge omelette
Quail
Turkey
Crocodile

That is about all I can remember!

The pigeons I have now are King Pigeons and their eggs are only just smaller than my Japanese Bantam chickens.

I have also eaten '100 year old eggs' in Thailand. These are preserved eggs that have been fermented in horse urine for several months - the eggs are black inside and sticky - sound disgusting, but when mixed with a spicy salad they are very nice.

We also eat preserved salty duck eggs. They are rather rubbery and, as in the name, very salty!

 

[farmer9989]

would that be one egg or two ?

 

[tigertusk]

Social attitudes about eating doves and pigeons became negative only after the French revolution because that's what the rich people ate (so that makes it bad?!!?). Nothing like jealousy that spans the centuries.

 

[nayeli]

Well, by now have you tried them? What did YOU think?

 

[jak2002003]

I eat my pigeons eggs all the time. They are just a little smaller than my bantam chicken eggs, and they taste exactly the same.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Isn't that weird? I said something about boiling pigeon eggs and pickling them (to someone that breeds pigeons and called me for a pickled egg recipe) and got 'eww gross, we don't eat pigeon eggs'. I use them when I have them.

 

[Zone3Dakota]

yup, we've eaten pigeon eggs, mostly just to see what they are like. Small eggs. I noticed the whites were a little more 'transparent'. The texture of the white is a little different, but okay. Like most birds, the egg flavor reflects what the birds are feeding on.

I tried once, to boil the little things. Probably too fresh, as I had an awful time peeling them, was practically left with just the little yolks.

Scrambled up with chicken eggs, you'd never know they were there.

For me, they are just too small to bother with, usually (but I don't have big squabbers, just racer type). I will boil up and mash a bunch and feed to my other critters, tho. My cats enjoy a small raw one, every once in a while.