Re: Eggs

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:55:40 -0500, percy <vbeausoleil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Màck©® wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:22:39 -0500, Claude Hopper
<boobooililililil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why don't we get turkey eggs in the store?

from straight dope dot com

Barnyard economics, babe. Turkeys don't lay that many eggs, and the
ones they do lay are used to produce more turkeys. The average
egg-laying chicken lays 300 or so eggs per year, while the average
turkey produces only 100 to 120. Chickens come into production at 19
to 20 weeks of age, but turkeys don't get cranking until 32 weeks.
Turkeys are also much larger, averaging 16 to 17 pounds compared to
3.5 pounds for chickens. So you'd need a lot more room for a bird that
would take a lot longer to produce a lot fewer eggs.

Another problem is that turkeys go "broody" easily--they want to sit
on their eggs and incubate them. In contrast, egg-producing white
leghorn chickens have had the broodiness bred out of them. They lay
and lay and have no desire to incubate their offspring or otherwise be
maternal. You want to play in traffic? Fine! Whatever! Now let me go
lay some more eggs. Proof that just because you can make a good
breakfast doesn't mean you're a good mom.



Don't forget that our broad-breasted domestic turkeys are so malformed
they can't breed naturally, so having a tom is kinda useless.

Vicki


on the show, dirty jobs, that was a manually performed procedure that
start with collecting the samples from the Tom. The Tom never
actually meets the Hen.

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