i keep coming across comments on trader joe eggs?

[Loretta212]

can you really just go to the store and buy the eggs and they hatch? i thought that store eggs were not fertilezed

 

[silkiechicken]

In some areas of the US, select stores sell fertilized eggs for eating.

 

[hcppam]

I think TJ's has fertilized eggs in there free range eggs...but no eggs will not hatch. They would have had to be kept in a bator not under refrigeration.

 

[scratch'n'peck]

I have never heard anything about Trader Joe eggs - interesting. I would think if they were refrigerated, even if you incubated them, they would not hatch.

 

[gryeyes]

I'm in California, and several Trader Joe's markets carry fertilized eggs for eating in their refrigerated cases. They are clearly marked:

I hatched a rooster and three hens from Trader Joe's eggs, on January 1, 2011. White leghorns.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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You might get a few chicks to hatch, some member on here have hatched them.

 

[silkiechicken]

Here is a link to the old thread on the TJ eggs:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=290845


You can hatch eggs out of the fridge, it is just less than ideal storage conditions. Less than ideal means a lower hatch or a no hatch, does not mean it is impossible. If a bunch of eggs sits out in 30F weather for 5 hours, they can still hatch, just not as well as if those eggs had sat in 45F weather for the same time.

 

[Tanichca]

Funny, I have eight TJ's eggs in the bator on day 11, happily wriggling away. They have better fertility than the eggs from my birds!

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Thanks for sharing the link to the TJ thread. Do they refrigerate their eggs? Maybe I was wrong about refrigerated eggs not hatching well as long as they are only refrigerated less than a week or so.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I refrigerate nearly all of my hatching eggs and get good hatches. Typically 90% or better with chicken eggs.

But those are eggs handled with the intention of hatching them even if they are refrigerated.

The TJ eggs may be fertile, but they aren't handled with the intention of doing anything with them other than eating them. If you find any in your local stores get the ones with the freshest dates on them that you can find.