Can I eat Emu eggs and what do they they taste like (apart from eggy obviously)?
Yes they are edible. about 10 times the size of a chicken egg some info for you the inside of an emu egg looks about like the inside of any other egg, with a yolk that is yellow (sometimes a little paler yellow than chicken egg yolk) and a normal, translucent egg-white – again, like chicken egg, but slightly more viscous because it contains less water – 67% versus 75%. One noticeable difference between emu eggs and chicken eggs is that in the emu egg, the yolk is huge. Chicken eggs (excluding shell) contain about 65% white, 35% yolk. Emu eggs, by comparison, contain 55% white, 44% yolk. This is not surprising, considering that an emu egg is designed to feed a developing chick for a 50 – 56 day incubation period (versus only 21 days for the chicken) and considering the fact that most of an egg’s nutrients – fats, vitamins, minerals and proteins – are concentrated in the yolk.
Yes, you can, but they are about four times bigger than a regular egg. When it’s the laying season, the female will lay about a dozen or so eggs, each one about 3 days apart. Then the male will sit on the nest. Watch out for the male. He can be aggressive and may attack, and you don’t want him pecking you on top of the head. The male walks around making a grunting noise, that’s the way you know which one is the male. Don’t wear any jewelry around them as they will try to peck it off and eat it. My neighbor used to have an emu ranch but he sold out when the price started dropping. Emu meat is very healthy. It is red meat and similar to beef, but it has to be cooked very slowly. The reason that emu meat never caught on for people to eat is because the cooks in the restaurants always tried to cook it like a hamburger, and it will come out tough. You can’t cook it that way. It has to be cooked very slowly. It is very good to eat, but you have to know how to cook it. Just remember, when you
