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Compact Cabins. Add to cart. Recipes From The Root Cellar. Advanced Bush Craft. Building Rabbit Housing E-Handbook. Image Credit. Why was it so wrong for me to be curious about harvesting and eating wild eggs? So, what happens when you take a wild goose egg from a nest?
Just like with chickens, when you remove an egg from a nest, more eggs get laid. The goose has the ability to keep making eggs, but, if some eggs are removed, geese—unlike chickens—follow their instinct and move the nest to a new, safer place in a process called re-nesting. Double your pleasure. Double your omelet. A familiar site for my friends in Chicago and many other urban areas. Image credit. At one point in time, Canada Geese were over-hunted. From what I can gather, that was more than years ago.
A lot can change in years, and now in some places, especially urban areas, people might say the population of Canada Geese is out of whack. Some of the geese apparently no longer migrate, but still remain covered under the law for migrating birds.
As I see it, the law as it applies to wild geese is a little outdated. In some urban and suburban areas, overpopulation of resident, non-migrating geese means they get culled en masse, since having too many geese, especially in areas with water, can contribute to eutrophication of the water, leading to algae overgrowth that has a cascade effect on other creatures in the water.
Geese can also be aggressive, especially when protecting a nest. If a goose is making a nest in your yard and attacks your toddler, you as the landowner can apply for a permit to destroy the eggs, which you would do by coating the eggs with vegetable or other oil, which effectively asphyxiates the embryo by preventing respiration through the porous shell.
Oiling eggs is a widely used practice, and was recommended to me by both conservation officers I spoke to, since the goose will not re-nest if the eggs are oiled. Harvesting those same eggs to make an omelet, though, would still be a felony, and there is no permit you can apply for to do so, at least in Minnesota and Wisconsin at the time of this writing.
Apparently big business and lobbying have no problem subverting bird laws to their wants. Unfortunately, I know no omelet lobbyists. This legal opinion prevents enforcement of all incidental take, removing incentives for companies to adopt practices that protect birds from threats such as oil waste pits. This means I could be charged with a felony and serve time in prison for making an omelet, but a giant company like BP, after incidentally killing 1,, or more birds in the Deepwater Horizon Spill in the Gulf of Mexico in , would face no charges.
In , a new administration reversed this decision , stopping the reinterpretation of the law from going into effect. The MBTA excludes birds with unprotected status, such as pigeons and starlings. But, these birds lay very small eggs, and the nests may be hard to reach, such as in the rafters of a barn. Lacey Act of combatting bird trafficking. Birds to which the MBTA does not apply. Birds Strike Causes Plane to Land. So close, yet so far away. All this resonates so much!!
Thank you for presenting some reasoned thinking around these issues. I also find it confounding that it is illegal to possess feathers of any birds, even from roadkill — except of course birds that are hunted for game.
It should be taken on a species by species basis. Species by species for sure, and considering that laws like that were also put into place as a way to stomp out Indigenous traditions is another reason to question them.
Daryl, the indigenous traditions is a great point. If you have a specific reference I can add please let me know. Great article on wild harvesting eggs. When shopping, avoid eggs with visible cracks or off odors.
Always store eggs in the refrigerator, where they will keep for up to three weeks, though it's important to check the "use by" date to ensure freshness. If you purchase eggs at a farmers' market they may have a little dirt on them, but that can easily be washed off. In How to Boil an Egg, Carrarini recommends waiting to wash eggs until you're ready to use them: "The shell is porous so it should not be washed before storage as this will make it permeable to smells such as garlic.
You can prepare non-chicken eggs in many of the same ways you would chicken eggs, including scrambling, frying, and poaching—though poaching an ostrich egg would be unwieldy given its size. However, due to differences in size and volume, one-to-one recipe substitutions won't always work; it's best to rely on weight instead.
A large chicken egg the type called for in most recipes weighs between 2 and 2. Read on for more information about chicken, duck, goose, ostrich, and quail eggs, including how to cook with them and recipes to try. Characteristics: Consumers have many options when it comes to buying chicken eggs.
White or brown eggs? Organic, free-range, cage-free, or pasture-raised? Omegaenriched or soy-free? The variety can be confusing, but ultimately, which egg to choose comes down to personal choice. Carrarini says she always shops for organic eggs, because the label assures her of the eggs' source. But she is also aware that what you buy very likely depends on what you can afford.
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