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

[Joplus]

Sorry it took me so long to get back. Here's little Whole Foods chick today.

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

That reminds me. Not much if a happy follow-up but out of the 72 Trader Joe's eggs the five that weren't clear went into lockdown but did not hatch. I'll still try again...maybe in a few weeks. I regretted selling my last Trader Joe's birds and really expected 30-40 chicks to pick from.

 

[Hatching]

That reminds me. Not much if a happy follow-up but out of the 72 Trader Joe's eggs the five that weren't clear went into lockdown but did not hatch. I'll still try again...maybe in a few weeks. I regretted selling my last Trader Joe's birds and really expected 30-40 chicks to pick from.

I'm sorry none hatched. Trader joes eggs are really hit or miss, once I got 8/12 and the next time 2/12

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have 17 eggs cooking- some were from a friend's fridge. Some are in incubator, some are under a hen. My eggs are from 4 different coops in my valley.

I have learned don't sell your chickens in the summer, thinking "I am getting so many eggs" sell them in the fall if at all.

 

[venymae]

Do all whole foods carry fertile eggs?? I just called the one next to my spouses work (she asked me if I wanted some!!!) and the young man in grocery said he didn't see any....??? What brand would we be looking for? We're in KC. The wholefoods was on 91st and Metcalf.

 

[gimmie birdies]

16/17 eggs hatched some were from a fridge.
below I have just put in another 11 some may be from a fridge.

 

[venymae]

Incubator all warmed up. Found out that out of 3 whole foods and 2 trader joes ZERO carry fertile eggs. My area stinks!

 

[sktlmt]

I asked at the Trader Joes in Portland and I was told that it has to do with how close the store is to the egg farm. Close by has fertile eggs and farther away does not. I do not know how true this is but it is what they told me.

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

I've only seen fertile eggs in California Trader Joe's.

 

[freejpony]

I heard the TJ farm that raises these egg is in Sonoma Co. I Live up in OR too.I will have to stop in at a closer TJ the next road trip. They are available in Redding but my hatch rate was real low.