Hatching Supermarket Eggs

[Duck_Lover123]

Hello, I have been looking to incubate some supermarket eggs out of curiosity to see what would happen. Obviously, conventional egg brands almost always cull males. So I was wondering if there were certain brands like for example, Vital Farms which pasture raise chickens and have chances of being with roosters. What are some recommended egg brands that are more liley to contain fertilized eggs.

 

[mydaisy]

I've heard of people hatching eggs from https://happyegg.com/

 

[NatJ]

Hello, I have been looking to incubate some supermarket eggs out of curiosity to see what would happen. Obviously, conventional egg brands almost always cull males. So I was wondering if there were certain brands like for example, Vital Farms which pasture raise chickens and have chances of being with roosters. What are some recommended egg brands that are more liley to contain fertilized eggs.

I found a thread about hatching grocery store eggs. It is a number of years old by now, but some of the information might still be useful:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...re-egg-hatching-club-are-you-a-member.290845/

If I was desperate for eggs to hatch, and didn't have any other good sources, I would buy "cage free" eggs from any store and give it a try. The reason for cage free: there are always a few sexing errors with chicks. In a cage-free setting, even one "oops" rooster could mate with quite a lot of hens, and it is hard to catch him to remove him, so the farmer may not bother. If the hens are in cages, an "oops" rooster can only mate with the few hens in his own cage, and it is easy to catch him and remove him. So "cage free" has a higher likelihood of fertile eggs even if the farmer was trying to have no roosters at all.