.... Any of y'all try eating um?

[bug_n_flock]

Parrot eggs, I mean. My flock gifted me an egg today that is most definitely not fertile. I have it sitting on top of a pile of quail eggs and I'm just looking at it like ....

 

[rheashard2]

Again my love of useless information. Parrot eggs are generally considered inedible by humans. They can harbor a bacteria that will make humans ill. I was curious. This is something I never thought about. I did find that eating parrot meat isn't advisable. That's because majority of species are on endangered lists. I guess this means I have to stop threatening to turn my CAG into parrot pot pie. So have to find another threat.

 

[nkrbkr]

Again my love of useless information. Parrot eggs are generally considered inedible by humans. They can harbor a bacteria that will make humans ill. I was curious. This is something I never thought about. I did find that eating parrot meat isn't advisable. That's because majority of species are on endangered lists. I guess this means I have to stop threatening to turn my CAG into parrot pot pie. So have to find another threat.

I tell Button he’s so cute, I’m going to eat him up. Followed by, “Just kidding. You wouldn’t even make a nugget.” I also “squish” him gently & tell him he’s a chicken sandwich.

 

[wrench13]

The following animals eat their young:
Spiders
Lions
Chimps
Hamsters
Rats
Hippos

Personally, I could not eat eggs that Salty laid (if he even could), but you do you!

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

I was wondering why cockatiels and budgies weren't bred for their eggs like quail. Interesting to know why! I wonder what they taste like... (and I'm insane enough to try it, too.)

 

[bug_n_flock]

My fone is acting up IDK how to get rid of the empty quote thingie sorry!

I'm definitely crazy enough to try. I'm gonna boil up some quail eggs later today, I will be boiling the cockatiel eggs at the same time there's two now, definitely infertile.

The list of critters who eat their young is a lot longer than that for *sure*. Also, an infertile egg is not the same as a chick, or even a fertilized egg. It's just an empty egg like a chicken egg from the store won't hatch a baby chick. No roosters involved in the creation of most grocery store chicken eggs.

Maybe I'm just more comfortable with the idea because I raise poultry and have had pet poultry and eaten their eggs before too lol

 

[bug_n_flock]

Oh I guess it took care of itself lol. Technology I am allergic to it or something

 

[bug_n_flock]

So if anyone's curious I tried it. Not great. The white was weirdly translucent and had a almost gummy/sticky texture(it was fully cooked). Yolk gamey flavor and weird texture also. I didn't get sick, didn't die. Can't say I'll do it again tho.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I was wondering why cockatiels and budgies weren't bred for their eggs like quail. Interesting to know why! I wonder what they taste like... (and I'm insane enough to try it, too.)

Budgie eggs are so tiny! You'd need a couple dozen to make breakfast! Plus, budgies can't be raised to lay eggs like chickens are because they would become calcium depleted pretty quickly and their bones would become very weak. They would get egg bound when calcium depleted and die.

I can't eat eggs because I'm allergic to them (at least to chicken eggs). As for eating budgie eggs if I could- and if it was possible to raise budgies for their eggs- I would try them, but infertile eggs ONLY of course!

I don't know if they would taste like chicken eggs. Probably pretty close. Eggs taste eggs, right? Both chickens and budgies are land birds and eat similar diets unlike ducks that are water birds and eat all sorts of funky water weeds and water bugs which probably explains why duck eggs are richer and taste different from chicken eggs (my husband tells me).

Cockatiels eggs are bigger than budgie eggs so you'd only need one dozen to eat breakfast but tiels would likely suffer the same fate as budgies if bred for their eggs.

Let's just stick to chicken eggs, okay? And maybe quail and duck and how about turkey eggs? No budgie eggs! Pleez!

 

[DonnaBudgie]

My fone is acting up IDK how to get rid of the empty quote thingie sorry!

I'm definitely crazy enough to try. I'm gonna boil up some quail eggs later today, I will be boiling the cockatiel eggs at the same time there's two now, definitely infertile.

The list of critters who eat their young is a lot longer than that for *sure*. Also, an infertile egg is not the same as a chick, or even a fertilized egg. It's just an empty egg like a chicken egg from the store won't hatch a baby chick. No roosters involved in the creation of most grocery store chicken eggs.

Maybe I'm just more comfortable with the idea because I raise poultry and have had pet poultry and eaten their eggs before too lol

I applaud your experiment trying the cockatiel eggs. Why not? I'm not a squeamish person about things like that. My Mom's Italian and her family would eat many "strange" foods. I was eating raw clams on the half shell at 5, and traditionally we ate rabbit cacciatore for Easter. I always loved it. My friends thought we were crazy eating the "Easter Bunny" but I don't recall ever really believing in that fantasy rabbit. Dad's family was from Poland and my Polish Grandma cooked Czarnina, a duck blood soup (hello, Rozalka!). I wasn't crazy about it but not because of the blood- it had a sweet and sour taste I've never liked much.

Next time, scramble them up and feed them to your parrots. I give my budgies a bit of scrambled egg frequently because I have some egg layers that could use the extra nutrients and all my budgies are active enough to burn off the extra calories.