Seasonal Pheasant Eggs
Our free range Pheasants enjoy an idyllic life similar to that of our Free-to-fly quails', they spend their days breathing in the Atlantic air, nesting under trees, stretching their legs and generally leading a care free life.
This seasonal pack is available from Selected Budgens, and Waitrose stores, Selfridges, Harrods and Wholefoods stores from mid April. Clarence Court only produce these eggs when the birds are in their laying season.
The Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), otherwise known as the Ring-necked Pheasant or Chinese Pheasant is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. They are native to Asia but have been introduced elsewhere as a game bird. Pheasants are very timid birds.
Pheasants are native to Asia, their original range extending from between the Black and Caspian seas to Manchuria, Siberia, Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan. Pheasants can now be found across the globe due to their readiness to breed, and the fact they can naturalise in many climates.
The bird was brought to Great Britain around the 10th century, arguably earlier, by both the Romans and Normans, but became locally extinct in the early 17th century. It was rediscovered as a gamebird after being ignored for many years in the 1830s
The pheasant egg is khaki in colour and a couple of sizes up from a quails egg with a large yolk. Perfect poached and served with hollandaise, alternatively they are delicious soft boiled with 'soldiers'.