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

[Pensmaster]

Their eggs are white so they would have to use barred rock roosters. From what I can tell, at least in our area, they use commercial brown leghorns roosters and white leghorn hens.

It might be different in other parts of the country though.

Would it be possible for the offspring to look barred rock completely? Reason I'm asking a friend has two that were given to them. They say are from trader joes and they look very much barred rock from the pictures.

 

[ronott1]

Would it be possible for the offspring to look barred rock completely? Reason I'm asking a friend has two that were given to them. They say are from trader joes and they look very much barred rock from the pictures.

Mine look like:







Not a bit like a Barred Rock.

 

[Pensmaster]

Mine look like: Not a bit like a Barred Rock.

I think perhaps they have other eggs in the mix as well not just TJ

 

[ronott1]

I think perhaps they have other eggs in the mix as well not just TJ

Yes!

Especially if the eggs were tinted cream or brown like BR eggs. The TJ's eggs are very white in color.

 

[Pensmaster]

Yes!

Especially if the eggs were tinted cream or brown like BR eggs. The TJ's eggs are very white in color.

Yea I've hatched them from here in Roseville all mine look like yours.
I've asked him to send me a picture of what he showed me this morning. Pretty good looking barred rock if I remember correctly

 

[Pensmaster]

Yes!

Especially if the eggs were tinted cream or brown like BR eggs. The TJ's eggs are very white in color.

Ok they can't possibly be from TJ. The rooster has a beard. Nice barring though

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

I bought 3 dozen (36) "fertile" eggs at Trader Joe's two weeks in a row. The first batch I got in Burbank, California. They were about 6 days old and by the time I put them into the incubator I think they were maybe 9 days old. ZERO development...maybe one wasn't completely clear so might have at least started to develop. The second week the eggs were from Los Angeles. Those eggs were only 3 days old and I got them into the incubator when they were about a week old. I just candled them and 17 of the 36 look great with a lot of distinct veins and embryos moving around. A few more haf blood rings or at least looked murky as if they had started to develop. I know that they might have had completely different handling or even refrigeration temperature but I'm thinking that from here on out I'll only try them when I find them about 3 days old. I'll be curious to see how many hatch and how well they hatch.

 

[ronott1]

I bought 3 dozen (36) "fertile" eggs at Trader Joe's two weeks in a row. The first batch I got in Burbank, California. They were about 6 days old and by the time I put them into the incubator I think they were maybe 9 days old. ZERO development...maybe one wasn't completely clear so might have at least started to develop. The second week the eggs were from Los Angeles. Those eggs were only 3 days old and I got them into the incubator when they were about a week old. I just candled them and 17 of the 36 look great with a lot of distinct veins and embryos moving around. A few more haf blood rings or at least looked murky as if they had started to develop. I know that they might have had completely different handling or even refrigeration temperature but I'm thinking that from here on out I'll only try them when I find them about 3 days old. I'll be curious to see how many hatch and how well they hatch.

I hope they hatch for you!

Did they come from the same egg farm?

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

I hope they hatch for you!

Did they come from the same egg farm?

I don't know if there is any way of knowing for sure but I'd say they probably don't have too many different sources for fertile eggs for Trader Joe's in the L.A. area.

 

[Manningjw]

Would it be possible for the offspring to look barred rock completely? Reason I'm asking a friend has two that were given to them. They say are from trader joes and they look very much barred rock from the pictures.

If the TJ eggs are from Commercial White Leghorn hens it is certainly possible to get Barred chickens in the F2 generation(crossing the offspring from the initial TJ hatch). Commercial White Leghorns generally have Barring genes to suppress any black feathers. If they use Austra-White (lightly tinted eggs) or California Grey these could produce barred chickens in the first hatch. I don't have personal knowledge of the layers of TJ eggs.