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

[gotro17]

Not in the box but they are pasture raised... There have been more bullseyes, than not, in every carton

 

[WthrLady]

Not all will be the same anyway. Vital farms is a co-op of like raised and kept chickens from farms around the country. You get eggs at the grocer from whichever farm is a member of the co-op closest to you. They base the type of box by which of the co-ops parameters the farm follows. Pasture size and keeping conditions. So your box and my box might not even be from the same farm. LOL.

I'll check them as soon as this batch is out of the 'Bator.

 

[gotro17]

Not all will be the same anyway.  Vital farms is a co-op of like raised and kept chickens from farms around the country.  You get eggs at the grocer from whichever farm is a member of the co-op closest to you.  They base the type of box by which of the co-ops parameters the farm follows.  Pasture size and keeping conditions.  So your box and my box might not even be from the same farm. LOL.

I'll check them as soon as this batch is out of the 'Bator.

yep- and on a hunch I. Racked 6 of the dozen I bought at target...not one was fertile. I'm going back to WF to buy the Non GMO Vital Farm eggs and @Jessimom is graciously adding them to a group she's setting tomorrow.

 

[gotro17]

Back to whole Foods for their Vital Farms

BULLSEYE!

 

[WthrLady]

Was going to pick some up while i was there, but the freshest was julian 360!

 

[gotro17]

I've had a egg turner mishap and have resorted to them all back in cartons for now... I threw the 6 in (VF)

 

[Hatching]

Did we come to the consensus that only the blue blue boxes or the black boxes of vital farms eggs could contain fertile eggs? Or was it left at "both, but it depends on where the eggs came from". My local Ralphs only had the black box of vital farms. Maybe my whole foods, trader joes or sprouts have the blue box.

I'm waiting on one of my Cochin hens to go broody so I can give her a mix of eggs to sit on: whole foods, vital farms, possibly eggs from the farmers market. I plan on skipping trader joes eggs just because I know what they hatch already.

 

[gotro17]

Did we come to the consensus that only the blue blue boxes or the black boxes of vital farms eggs could contain fertile eggs? Or what it left at "both, but it depends on where the eggs came from". My local Ralphs only had the black box of vital farms. Maybe my whole foods, trader joes or sprouts have the blue box.

I'm waiting on one of my Cochin hens to go broody so I can give her a mix of eggs to sit on: whole foods, vital farms, possibly eggs from the farmers market. I plan on skipping trader joes eggs just because I know what they hatch already.

I started with the black boxes and found bullseyes. I only have found the blue at whole foods and I think it said "exclusive". Like someone said before- I think it depends on the farm... Crack two or three...if they're not fertile, you at least have breakfast!

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

I'm trying another batch of eggs from Trader Joe's. I found fertile eggs in Tucson, AZ (first time I've seen them outside CA). They only had a few cartons out but there was a guy stocking eggs at the time. I asked if they had any fresher eggs in the back and he said that he'd find me in the store if he found some. Sure enough they had some eggs that were 5 days old so I got 4 dozen for $12. I still have to fly back to Tennessee with them tomorrow and probably wait a few days until I make room in my incubator by moving eggs from my incubator into my hatcher but only after all the eggs in the hatcher now have hatched (on the 19th). Anyhow, I'll get them in as soon as I can.

 

[Th0mmyV]

I live in Switzerland and did 15 Free-Land eggs (brown and white) groceries store (Aldi and Lidl) in the incubator last year.
Had a total of 9 healty chicks out of these. One was one of the most beautifull males I had/saw, completely white out of a brown Egg. To bad I could not keep him.
I kept 3 hens, all impure white. On only 6 months 1 went broody, I broke her broodiness and she was broody again after only 3 weeks. A friend needed a broody and gave her away.
The 2 other hens lay both brown eggs and since september (the were six months) I had only 11 days where one of the 2 didn't lay an egg.... from September 1st till January 18th that is an avarage of 134,5 eggs on 140 days! And the size is like the large eggs in groceries.

So glad with these chicken.

If you are living in Europe (Switzerland) try these they are it worth !

Cockerel at 18 weeks