Trader Joes & Other Grocery Store Egg Hatching Club - Are you a Member

[bauerdog]

Dunno for sure. Sell by Jan 22

 

[bauerdog]

Nice big medium brown. They are porous though!

 

[Peep_Show]

If you check on the side where the "Sell By" date is there should be a three-digit number. Sometimes they'll have a plant code, so a letter or so beforehand. The number indicates the packing date on a Julian calendar (001 being Jan 1st and 365 being Dec 31st). Figuring out what date that number is will tell you how fresh they are.

 

[SpringPeeper]

Nice big medium brown. They are porous though!

Cool, I'd try some fertile brown store bought eggs if I found them.

 

[bauerdog]

If you check on the side where the "Sell By" date is there should be a three-digit number.   Sometimes they'll have a plant code, so a letter or so beforehand.  The number indicates the packing date on a Julian calendar  (001 being Jan 1st and 365 being Dec  31st).   Figuring out what date that number is will tell you how fresh they are.

How old are these?

 

[Peep_Show]

329 would be November 25th.

 

[Peep_Show]

Today (12/17) would be 351.

 

[AuntNomi]

Nice big medium brown. They are porous though!

Cool! I wonder what kind of chicks they will be? I have never found any fertile eggs in my area. I keep looking though.

 

[bauerdog]

Today (12/17) would be 351.

A bit on the old side, huh? It still shocks me on how old eggs are on the shelf that they market as fresh!

 

[Peep_Show]

Well, it might explain why they seem a bit porous.

Sometimes if you dig to the back of the shelf you find the fresher eggs as they put the stuff they need to move out front. (Same goes for bags of salad and packages of meat)