grocery store bought fertile eggs?

[jessejames]

howdy
i have been on the hunt for some fertile eggs here in oantario with no luck
but have just read the thread about trader joes fertile eggs
whats up with this are the packages labeled fertile etc. i have never even thought i could hatch eggs from grocery store
pls help me out here

 

[GardeNerd]

Here are some pictures of the egg cartons our eggs came out of when we hatched grocery store eggs. All the packages we used from the different stores (that were sucessful) did say "fertile" somewhere on the box. Good luck, it's fun!

Here is a link to our science fair project page:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=20741-science-project

 

[Califowlday]

Wait...Trader Joe's has hatchable eggs? That actually hatch? Aren't they chilled and killed???
-Jaxy

 

[GardeNerd]

Quote:
We hatched some and so have a bunch of others here at BYC.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=124940

Here is our pullet that came out of an egg from Trader Joes in February.

 

[Califowlday]

Lol! Oh my goodness I'm going to have to try that I hadn't heard of that till today
-Jaxy