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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE => Topic started by: Jerrymac on December 30, 2008, 03:07:45 pm

Title: Guinea Eggs
Post by: Jerrymac on December 30, 2008, 03:07:45 pm
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?

Title: Re: Guinea Eggs
Post by: poka-bee on December 30, 2008, 03:39:13 pm
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
Title: Re: Guinea Eggs
Post by: Jerrymac on December 30, 2008, 04:21:17 pm
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.  :)
Title: Re: Guinea Eggs
Post by: poka-bee on December 30, 2008, 05:02:08 pm
YUP! :-D  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
Title: Re: Guinea Eggs
Post by: Robo on December 30, 2008, 05:35:50 pm
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.


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Title: Re: Guinea Eggs
Post by: Brian D. Bray on December 30, 2008, 06:34:20 pm
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.
Title: Re: Guinea Eggs
Post by: poka-bee on December 30, 2008, 08:20:30 pm
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 :roll:  A real DUH moment!!  See how helpful this forum is?? ;)  J