Ovo-lacto vegetarians... different types of egg?

Question

My housemate offered me duck and quail eggs the other day, and for some reason that just seems wrong, even though I eat chicken eggs.

Has anyone else found that sometimes their own rules don't seem to apply?

What do people feel about other types of egg? Assuming the eggs aren't fertilised, of course- otherwise it's a completely different kettle of fish (Quorn fish, of course)

Answer 1

Try goose eggs they are yummy! I have no problem with eating eggs form other birds as long as they are not fertilized, and the birls aren't being mistreated or killed when they stop producing.

Answer 2

I am a former chef and a lacto-ovo veg, myself and other eggs are actually more free range than the mass marketed one from the grocery stres, I have had duck, quail, goose, turkey, plovers and others like ostrich and emu in Asia.

Some are higher in cholesterol and much richer in taste and with ostrich and emu alot more in them than a common chicken egg, but I also use egg replacements and just plain old egg white in carton from my PriceChopper here in Toronto Canada, even have had the preserved ones they use in Chinese cooking the 1000 yr old and the salted duck eggs, there a bit funky and the blue and green peruvian chix eggs are cute at easter for the kids.

As for the fertilization question, most bird female that is will produce eggs during there life when able to lay, a common chicken who does is out and no longer able to in 16-20 months then it is the soup factory.

Answer 3

An egg's and egg.  I don't think ducks or quail are treated any better or worse than chickens.