Trader Joe’s Fertile Eggs

[ShaunJ421]

That's awesome! Congrats on all your new chicks! I'd love to hear updates as they feather out and start finding out the sex of them all.

 

[KernH]

I hatched fertile grocery store eggs a few years ago. Took the eggs right out of the refrigerated cooler. Had a great hatch and the pullets ended up being great layers.

 

[picklestheduck]

This is amazing!!!! Congrats!!

 

[Judy Todd]

For those of you interested in the Trader Joe’s fertile eggs and whether you can actually hatch chicks from them, I have 10 out of a dozen that have made it to lockdown!

OMG, I did not evenknow Trader Joe sold such a thing!!!! I don't shop there as it is anhour away. Can you put those eggs under a broody???

 

[CannedMonster]

OMG, I did not evenknow Trader Joe sold such a thing!!!! I don't shop there as it is anhour away. Can you put those eggs under a broody???

I’m sure you could but I’d definitely let them come to room temperature before I gave them to a broody.

 

[Derrick]

Which brand eggs did you buy at Trader Joe’s? I may have to throw some in my new incubator…. Picture of the carton would be awesome if you have one.

 

[Hazyhens]

Which brand eggs did you buy at Trader Joe’s? I may have to throw some in my new incubator…. Picture of the carton would be awesome if you have one.

These are the ones I got!

 

[Hazyhens]

I have terrible news regarding the chicks, 3 of the 8 died. The first to go was one that had splayed legs and was not thriving despite my best attempts to rehabilitate it, I assumed that chick probably wouldn’t do well from the beginning. Then this morning I came out to 2 others that had randomly passed.

 

[Moose364]

I wonder if they will be all hens. excited to see what happens

 

[Hazyhens]

I wonder if they will be all hens. excited to see what happens

I suspect these chicks to be leghorns and I read somewhere that leghorns can be feather sexed (fast growing versus slow growing) not sure how true that is but if that’s the case then it appears I have 3 hens and 2 Roos. Three of the chicks have really long wing feathers and are already getting tail feathers while the other two have little stubby wings still and no tail feathers