Trader Joes & Other Grocery Store Egg Hatching Club - Are you a Member

[kcaywood]

Aw, I'm sorry to hear that, Gabrielle. I hope the eight keep going strong. My candling day is tomorrow, Wednesday. I'll let you all know what I discover!

 

[gabrielle1976]

No, chick4chix. I didn't have them separated, since I knew they'd be going before they really became big roos. The chickens we did this weekend came from people who brought or donated. They went into my "scraptor" (a chicken tractor I built outa stuff lying around the ranch) to wait for their trip to the cone.

I personally cant eat anything I have hatched but Im so glad so many of us on her can, the life these little chickens lead till its there turn in the freezer is 1000 times better then the lives of the little roos hatched by any large scale process , be it tossed into the garbage and sufficated or dumped into a grinder for pet food or grown out in horrible crowded conditions till they are mass processed . I think that every person that raises there own birds for meat intentional or as a side effect of hatching is a hero and that some day maybe our numbers will out wigh the mass market numbers

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How are your little chicks doing any new pictures of the fuzz balls?

 

[liz9910]

Hi there! I read up on the thread, got excited, and joined the club yesterday (1/12) with a dozen brown fertile Rock Island eggs from a natural foods co-op in Sacramento. My incubator is a forced air Little Giant with a turner. I've hatched many shipped eggs but never store eggs! I'm candling Wednesday night and will post updates.

Hi I am very curious to know what kind of chicks hatch from those eggs, my local Save Mart actually carries that same brand!

 

[gabrielle1976]

Someone just hatched these and they were yellow chicks with a few spots , they are sapose to be RIR for that brands brown eggs and White leghorn for that brands white eggs but RIR chicks arnt yellow so we have all been debating what they could be . There cute if you go back through some of the pages there should be pictures some where. I have 8 left incubating they wont be hatching for another 11 or so days though. BUt Ill post lots of pictures if I can get any to hatch. My first tip for you would be to call the store and find out when there shipment of these eggs come in and what time and go pick them up fresh as you can. I got mine right after shipment saposidly but they were still 17 days old not sure what happend there

 

[Pele]

Hi I am very curious to know what kind of chicks hatch from those eggs, my local Save Mart actually carries that same brand!

I am the most recent person that hatched them. They are yellow chicks that are feathering out white. However one is a yellow chick with black splotches here and there (still feathering out mostly white though).

I think the closest official hybrid you can compare them to are Tetra Tints, which are RIR rooster and Leghorn hen crosses. Only this would be reverse genders because the eggs are brown.

 

[chickenlover135]

I Have 6 whole Foods Fertile Eggs In the incubater I See Veins And All Did anybody Else Hatch Whole Food eggs Tips And WhaT Breed Do They Become

 

[chickenlover135]

My Eggs

 

[chickenlover135]

this Is The case They came In

 

[chickenlover135]

Btw how do U start a thread

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I Have 6 whole Foods Fertile Eggs In the incubater I See Veins And All Did anybody Else Hatch Whole Food eggs Tips And WhaT Breed Do They Become

Did they say fertile or where they a certain brand??? I have been wanting to do a hatch experiment with store bought but everyone I asked said their eggs weren't fertile!

Ohhhh, the possibilities!