Guinea Eggs

[Jerrymac]

Who else has guinea eggs and would you sell them as a specialty item, separate from chicken eggs, and for how much do you think?

[poka-bee]

I only have 1 so if she is spotty I just put em in with the chix eggs, labeling the carton.  If she is on a roll they go for $5dz or $3 1/2dz. J

[Jerrymac]

I got four guineas and they are just starting to lay.... I think. I am getting two eggs a day right now, that is if they are not hiding them somewhere around out side. 

$5 a dozen huh. 

[poka-bee]

YUP!   They are smaller & slightly different than chix, the shells are sooo hard!  They are very good @ hiding them too & the way they "throw" their voices it's sometimes hard to track em down!  J

[Robo]

They are very good @ hiding them too

Ain't that the truth.  And sometimes by the time you find the nest it is overflowing....  Here is one that had over 75 eggs in it.


 

[Brian D. Bray]

If you have an asian population of any note they like guinea and duck eggs.  $5.00 a dozen for Guinea eggs and $6.00 for duck eggs isn't unheard of for thos markets.  Asian = Indonesian, Philipino, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, and Japanese.

[poka-bee]

Oh Robo, that's so funny!  Then you wonder why you couldn't see them before!  I've found 25 before from my 1 Miss Ginny..I always think of the waste...woulda been $10!!  I hardboil all the "finders" both chix & guinea, smunch em in the vitamix & feed back, shells & all.  Now that I think of it, it would be easier to clean if I smunched FIRST, then cook..hmmm   A real DUH moment!!  See how helpful this forum is??   J