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    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    I forgot to say, we got Cochin Bantams. We really like them, but right now my daughter also has a 5 month old black Silkie pullet that is very sweet. The Cochins are an excellent chicken breed for our household. They don't mind confinement on the days I am not around to let them free range...
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    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Ah, thank you. I haven't told the kids yet. We have a bunch of other videos of her, including Joey relaxing in a chicken bath and falling asleep while getting her feather dried with a hair dryer. Maybe I should go back and watch those. She was a good chicken.
  3. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    I should have resisted looking to see if there were any updates, but reading this thread got me wondering again. I wish I had no way of knowing what happened. Sadly, I went to the link to Michelle's twitter feed and back in Oct. 2011, she posted that all of her chickens had been killed in a...
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    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    I am sorry to report Joey and two buddies went to live with a young family in Burbank back in July 2010. My kids wanted to have more baby chicks and even considered joining 4H. We decided to give bantams a try and let the kids raise them. We didn't have the room to keep two separate flocks, so...
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    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    I can think of few different reasons why folks might prefer buy them: they want to turn them into Balut some folks assume they are healthier or more nutritious Room to mate = probably more room for the chickens, rather than a confined battery cage *And to get cool chickens after you incubate...
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    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Hi 3 NH Reds, The word Fertile usually appears in big letters on the top of the box, just like "Free Range," "organic" or "Pastured." It would not be hard to find if the eggs are fertile. Most of the TJ's that carry Fertile eggs are on the West Coast, but other natural grocery stores around...
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    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    I posted a new video because my husband said he had been getting comments and questions via youtube that I needed to address and update. It has hatching, baby chicks, Joey's first egg song, and just chickens hanging out in my garden. Approx. 6 minutes. After a little over a year, my hen...
  8. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Thanks! I haven't thought about this thread in a long time. Joey is doing well. She is about 11 months old now. With the change in day light she was briefly only laying about 4 eggs a week, but just started back up to normal speed again at about 6 to 7 eggs a week. Her eggs are still getting...
  9. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    We had an exciting day today! Joey laid an egg! It is a perfect little white 1.3 oz. pullet egg! Yeah! She is 19 weeks and 1 day old today.
  10. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    R@ndy : Were the eggs you got from Trader Joe's refrigerated when you bought them?? Yes. And we weren't the only ones to do it with refrigerated eggs either. I think cutiepieacres had some that had been in the fridge case at the store for 11 days. AHappychick-Thanks for the congrats...
  11. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Well, sorry to continue to make this long story even longer, but my son got picked from his school a couple of weeks ago to move on to the school district level of the science fair with his project this weekend. When we found out, I decided I should finally contact Trader Joes since their...
  12. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Quote: That is so sweet to say. Thank you very much. I wish everyone could meet Joey. It is amazing how nice she is. All my future chickens will be measured against her. I am very curious if it is the breed/ mix she is or if it was her upbringing, Nature vs. Nurture. If OCChickens get to...
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    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    mom2chicksandpups wrote: We had actually planned to keep our egg layers separate from any roosters that we keep so our eating eggs would NOT be fertile. We didn't want to have to deal with blood in the eggs, etc. None of the fertile eggs we cracked open had any kind of blood spot. If you...
  14. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Well, here are Joey's most recent pics. She is now 12 weeks old as of tomorrow. My son's project is finally due, on Friday, and he is putting the board together to turn in so we took some updated pics of her. I am hoping she will start laying by mid to late June? If she IS a Hyline, the...
  15. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Thanks!
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    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    zippy11455 wrote: I can imagine the conversations at family gatherings 30 yrs from now. The time they hatched a chick will be a part of family lore. Wow, I had not thought of it that way. I was just telling my husband today, out of all the chickens, Joey will get to live here until old age...
  17. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Quote: Yeah! What are you going to do if they all hatch?
  18. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    Quote: Thank you for the suggestion. I will try. Does it work only with the day olds or does it work with older ones too?
  19. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    The neighbor did not end up taking the two new babies that are the same kind as Joey. She was worried about age differences with the 3 week olds she took. I agreed. I still have to find a home for them. Anyone want them who is local? They are too old to ship. I have come to the...
  20. GardeNerd

    Kids Trader Joe's eggs hatched! - Update on Joey on post #147

    There was a dozen eggs that were just "cage free/ free range" that were the control group. I added these extras that the two chicks came from, from the same kind Joey came out of, to make sure we duplicated the same conditions that would cause the eggs to develop. Their eggs were in the batch...
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