city dwellers can raise their own eggs

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There's a kind of bird called coturnix, button quail, or something

else. They've been bred as housepets in Japan since the 12th

century. Other places they've been bred to grow to eatin' size and

produce eggs very quickly (in 7 weeks they lay eggs, laying 200 - 300

a year)in tight quarters and they'll eat just about anything. Since

they don't perch, they mostly want floorspace and you can keep 2 - 3

in a 50 gallon aquarium very comfortably. Handled frequently from

babies they become very tame and enjoyable pets. The eggs are large

for quail eggs (but small compared to bantam hen eggs). Since they're

designated as game birds, not poultry, the rules about poultry don't

apply to them in most places.