Poultry
Bobwhite Quail
B tier
Bobwhite quail eggs are small, pale, and less commercially common than coturnix, with a delicate flavour tied to North American game-farm breeding stock. They are slightly different in shape and often paler-shelled than speckled japonica eggs. Soft-boil carefully; supply is seasonal around breeding cycles for release birds. A regional specialty when game farms sell surplus table eggs.
Also known as: Bobwhite quail egg, Bobwhite egg
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History
Wild bobwhite eggs were rarely taken once game laws matured; farms later incubated them.
Pen-raised bobwhite programmes produced eggs mainly for hatching.
Limited surplus bobwhite eggs reached specialty buyers.
Game farms occasionally marketed bobwhite eggs beside coturnix.