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# I'm sure I told you about this ?
I bought a dozen quails eggs from Tesco and bunged them in my mates incubator.
I am now the father of 5 fluffy baby quails.
They aren't pets though - once they start producing chicks of their own I'll be eating quail pie, stuffed quail, quail in a basket etc.
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:44, archived)
# I remember you saying . . .


(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:44, archived)
# Yeah, you told me you got the eggs, I didn't realise they'd hatched though
I want to see pictures!
(Pachey, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:45, archived)
# I'll take my camera

(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:48, archived)
# Surely Tesco's quail's eggs
should not be fertilised?
You should send pictures to Tesco and demand free eggs!
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:49, archived)
# I was thinking this,
I need proof before I believe this spurious tale!
(I helped save b3ta! Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:52, archived)
# it's like these amazing lunches he apparently has
always followed by going to the pub.
I find it all rather difficult to believe!
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:55, archived)
# Well I bought
a pound of bacon from Asda and put it under the grill. Now I've got 8 healthy piglets.
*Runs
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 11 May 2006, 10:59, archived)
# Cooking nice lunches
gives me the motivation to get out of bed in the morning.
And I go to the pub every single day of the week apart from Sunday when I'm too busy with Sunday Lunch
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Thu 11 May 2006, 11:01, archived)
# E-mail from the Animal Rights Coalition (made me laff !)
Re: Tesco Quail Eggs,

Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We have checked into it, and yes, Tesco's are definitely selling eggs that are capable of hatching. However, we are concerned that if we started a campaign about this that it might encourage other bird breeders to "hatch" eggs from Tesco's, and we know how miserable life can be for animals born in captivity. This being the case we have decided that, in the long term, less animal suffering will be involved if we don't advertise these fertilised eggs by starting a campaign.

Tesco's, like all supermarkets, is guilty of inflicting massive suffering on all the animals whose bodies they sell, and whose milk and eggs they exploit. In a world where animals who have been born are treated so contemptuously by all and sundry it would be a wasted effort to try and get the sale of quail eggs banned. Hopefully fewer animals will be born to suffer in captivity by our keeping silent.

Again, thank you for your vigilance. If anything changes with this situation, please let us know.

Regards,
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:58, archived)
# That sounds like a cop-out to me
(Pachey, Thu 11 May 2006, 11:05, archived)
# Whyever not?
It makes little difference


(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:55, archived)
#
as you will see from Mighty Gusset's reply below, you are quite wrong.

So go dur yourself.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:57, archived)
# no, I mean they don't taste any different
fertilised or not . . . so why shouldn't they be?

(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Thu 11 May 2006, 11:10, archived)
# It compromises a vegetarian's integrity
Unfertilised eggs don't contain anything dead, but a fertilised egg has an embryo, technically an animal.
(Pachey, Thu 11 May 2006, 11:14, archived)
# Of course!


(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Thu 11 May 2006, 11:18, archived)
# admit you have lost!
Nice hat!
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Thu 11 May 2006, 11:26, archived)
# There's two things about quails
Lady quails will not lay unless there's a man quail around.
Commercial quail breeders never bother to sex them - they only keep them for about eight weeks so there's no point.
Put those two factors together and it means there's a high probability that any quail eggs you buy are going to be fertilised.
As for Tesco - I consider this the best BOGOF offer I've ever had !
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:55, archived)
# Edumacational!
thank you.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Thu 11 May 2006, 10:57, archived)