Trader Joe's fertile eggs

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Hey everyone, I am doing my very first hatch and I decided on using Trader Joe's white eggs. I am so eggcited because we are on day 5 and the majority of my 3 dozen eggs purchased have blood viens starting to run through them. I do believe though that one of the eggs has a blood ring, but I'm not quit sure, what should I do with that one? Should I wait until next candling or pull it now? I also put in 2 brown eggs from Walmart just to see what happens, but they are too dark to see through, how do you tell with the darker eggs what is going on inside? Any advice on raising and hatching would be greatly appreciated. I also have 5 month old Reds, and black Australorp but they are not laying yet, how can I encourage them to lay?
 
Welcome to Backyard chickens. There is a thread for people that have hatched 'Trader Joe's eggs', I think you would enjoy it. Just put that title in the search box and it should pop up.
 
Welcome to the BYC flock! We are glad you joined us!

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Here is the thread drumstick diva mentioned. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...cery-store-egg-hatching-club-are-you-a-member

Did you Walmart eggs say they were fertile, or are you just hoping to see what happens?

Sorry, I can't really answer your other questions but you may want to look on this forum or try posting your questions there: https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-hatching-eggs
 
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You've been given some good links to get more information on the fertile eggs and incubating them, hope they helped. As for how to encourage your chickens to lay, the easiest answer is they will lay when they are ready. Just make sure they have a good nutritional feed, limit treats to no more than 10% of their daily diet, give them fresh water and a clean coop and then you wait (that's the hardest part). When they are showing signs of almost laying (such as squatting for you, bright red combs and wattles), you can put golf balls or plastic eggs in the nesting boxes to give them the idea of where they are supposed to lay. Don't be too surprised if you find their first eggs somewhere other than in the boxes or small eggs or even soft shelled eggs...it can take a bit of extra time for their systems to mature.

Good luck with your flock, hope you are enjoying them!
 
Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. So the brown eggs were not fertile, out of the 3 doz eggs bought from trader joes 23 are now in lockdown, I am so anxious for them to hatch they are due any day now. I can't wait to meet them.
 
So my being so anxious has caused one of my eggs to get broken. I think he/she will be OK because it cracked right in the air cell and I used crayon wax to seal the crack, the chicky is still moving. I dropped the light when I was candling it (I know I'm not supposed to :) and it landed on the egg. Please let me know if there is anything else I should be looking for. I am hearing peeps inside the bator, so a lot of the babies have made it into the air cell. I'm too excited I need something to get my mind off this. Can you tell it is my first hatch. Lol
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