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

[caesargirl]

Yes, those chicks are equal to what I have at my house now!

When I hatch these eggs I do not expect to get more that a couple per dozen--and then this happens!

This is the third time I have hatched Trader Joes eggs and the first time for Whole Foods. The first time I hatched out three from a dozen, then 17 from 22 set with two dead after hatch. This time 32 out of 45 set.

It cost me about $20.00 for the eggs this time too!

Ok, next challenge.... Have someone ship you TJ and WF eggs and hatch! You're setting the hatch curve high!!!

 

[Rod-T]

What you do with all the leghorn males?

 

[ronott1]

What you do with all the leghorn males?

The Whole foods may be some type of White Rock--eggs were brown. The Trader Joes are a brown layer crossed with a leghorn hen. They lay mostly brown tinted eggs.

The males actually get fairly large and are like Austra Whites. The make a good chicken dinner!

 

[Rod-T]

The Whole foods may be some type of White Rock--eggs were brown. The Trader Joes are a brown layer crossed with a leghorn hen. They lay mostly brown tinted eggs.

The males actually get fairly large and are like Austra Whites. The make a good chicken dinner!

That's interesting.

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

When you said "4 dozen eggs" (48) I just couldn't imagine that it could be a styrofoam "Little Giant" or "Hovabator". I'll have to look up that "cool down cycle"...I have no idea what that means. I hatch continuously (every week) and transfer to a separate hatcher so I assume it's something I can't do...but I'm curious. I really don't even drop the temperature for hatching as I seem to get better results (but it might be cooler at the bottom of my hatcher than where the racks are in my incubator).

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The cool down simulates the daily event of a mother hen getting off to defecate, eat, drink and stretch.

You can do it by unplugging the incubator. Be careful that you don't get distracted with another project and leave it unplugged.
I've done that. If I do that now, I set an alarm on my phone.

 

[joydix]

Safeway has organic fertile eggs from rock island in petaluma! SAFEWAY!!! the name possibilities abound!!!

 

[ronott1]

Safeway has organic fertile eggs from rock island in petaluma! SAFEWAY!!! the name possibilities abound!!!

I need to check here in Davis.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[SpringPeeper]

My TJ eggs (a whole whopping seven that I set) were pretty fresh and had a 100% hatch rate. My sister set twice, and the first was 1/7, the second was 5/7. The males weren't big meat birds, but plenty on them for a pot of soup or dumplings (or frying, if I didn't hate making fried chicken). I had some yellow with black spots and a pair of solid yellow. My sister only hatched out solid yellow chicks. Great little hens.

 

[bauerdog]

The Whole foods may be some type of White Rock--eggs were brown. The Trader Joes are a brown layer crossed with a leghorn hen. They lay mostly brown tinted eggs.

The males actually get fairly large and are like Austra Whites. The make a good chicken dinner!

So are the hens good layers? My store has not had very fresh ones. The best has been about 20 days. Do you think that it would be a waste of $4 to try giving it a go?