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

[olliegrow]

So cool...anyone every hatch out any bantams or other fancy breeds from grocery store eggs? Probably just common egg layers im assuming...

 

[ronott1]

So cool...anyone every hatch out any bantams or other fancy breeds from grocery store eggs? Probably just common egg layers im assuming...

I hatched some chicks from Trader Joes fertile eggs for the NYD hatch a long. have not seen any fertile bantam eggs.

 

[Chicadoodle]

We did try quail eggs and they were not fertile

 

[bantambury]

The Weather is so nice here in California! (sorry East Coast).

I took the Six week old chicks out for some fresh air and greens.

great video ron! I love seeing your birds! makes me want to hatch out some of these guys! the colors are great!

 

[doodle doo]

Hi Steemroo. I've been offline about 6 weeks. (high speed internet woes in V.C.) Thanks for the detailed process for improving hatch rates with TJ's fertile eggs. As soon as my Brahma cochin goes broody again, I'm going to use the in-store candleing process. (can I borrow your wife for the embarassing part of candeling eggs under a coat in the store?

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I ended up with 2 roosters and one hen. The roosters are almost pure white and the hen is white with a few black spots. They turned 9 weeks this past Monday. Now for the hard part of finding homes (without a soup pot) for the roosters.

Oddly, the hen is only about 2/3 the size of the roosters.

I have a possible store for domesticzoo to find fertile eggs. Sprout's (formerly Henry's, formerly Boney's may have them.) They also may carry them at Jimbo's if they have one in your area.

My 4 year old Barred Rock hen has something wrong with her left leg and I need to search for a way to make her more comfortable.

Good luck to everyone with hatching store bought eggs.

 

[Peep_Show]

TeJae laid her first egg today! It is cream-colored and weighs 1.77 grams.... The biggest first-time-laying egg in the coop so far as the other birds did "training" eggs and started out with peewee size. In the nest box, too. Good girl!



2 RSL eggs + 1 TJ's egg (one of these things is not like the other....)

TeJae hatched late September, so nearly a 5 m.o. now. She's white with a few random dark grey feathers.

 

[ronott1]

TeJae laid her first egg today! It is cream-colored and weighs 1.77 grams.... The biggest first-time-laying egg in the coop so far as the other birds did "training" eggs and started out with peewee size. In the nest box, too. Good girl!



2 RSL eggs + 1 TJ's egg (one of these things is not like the other....)

TeJae hatched late September, so nearly a 5 m.o. now. She's white with a few random dark grey feathers.

Nice egg!

 

[Chicadoodle]

So our eggs are from Hyline browns, a sex link created by crossing the browns with the silver hylines. Since they were interbred the colors are mixed and they are not longer sexable by color. Cant wait to see how they grow out, we have some feathering in white, some with penciling, some kind of a mixed buff and some partridge like.

 

[redheadhen]

I am looking to do this. Mainly to use as heat sinks for a small hatch I am planning to do in a few weeks. I would be thrilled if a few actually hatChed. Is there any thought or advice. What has been the success rate?

 

[ronott1]

I am looking to do this. Mainly to use as heat sinks for a small hatch I am planning to do in a few weeks. I would be thrilled if a few actually hatChed. Is there any thought or advice. What has been the success rate?

look for the julian date on the carton and get the freshest you can find(Go back a couple of pages and look for a chart. It is a three digit code on the carton)

Try to get eggs that are less than two weeks old.

They hatch well if they are fertile and fresh.