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

[humpbacks1962]

By the way, my local Stop and Shop sells Nature's Yoke fertile eggs from Pennsylvania farms, and they are Hy Line browns.

 

[ronott1]

By the way, my local Stop and Shop sells Nature's Yoke fertile eggs from Pennsylvania farms, and they are Hy Line browns.

They likely use white roosters so that they can easily monitor the number of roosters to hens.

The pullets that you hatch will lay either a white or light brown egg. The ones I hatched from brown eggs that I bought at Whole foods did that. None of the eggs are as dark as the parent eggs either.

 

[humpbacks1962]

Nop, the way it works is, farmers use Hi Lyne brown chickens which are sex linked.
This was explained by the company to me

 

[humpbacks1962]

Check out the Hy Line website for info.
These are not the chicks sold by Trader Joes or Whole Foods.

These are Nature's Yoke fertile eggs,sold by Stop and Shop

 

[ronott1]

Check out the Hy Line website for info.
These are not the chicks sold by Trader Joes or Whole Foods.

These are Nature's Yoke fertile eggs,sold by Stop and Shop

whole foods uses hyline brown hens with a white rooster. The chicks that hatch look exactly like the trader Joes chicks,

When I checked, Hyline only sold One white line and one brown line in the US. That was a couple of years ago though.

The eggs here come from Sonoma County and they seem to be more fertile here than in other parts of the US.

 

[humpbacks1962]

The ones I am talking about come from farms in Pensylvannia.

Check out the Hy Line webpage. Those are distributed by Natures Yoke, which they do not sell in Whole Foods or Trader Joe{s. They sell other brands

http://www.hyline.com/aspx/redbook/redbook.aspx?s=3&p=32

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

I first found out about Trader Joes selling fertile eggs back in 2006. I've tried twice, but nothing happened from either attempt. I'm thinking of trying again. Here's the numbers from the carton I currently have:

P1128

038

MAR 08

I'm not good at reading the dates and such on these things so I could use some help before I try incubating one of the eggs. I'm only doing one just to see if it actually works.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[Pensmaster]

I first found out about Trader Joes selling fertile eggs back in 2006. I've tried twice, but nothing happened from either attempt. I'm thinking of trying again. Here's the numbers from the carton I currently have:

P1128

038

MAR 08

I'm not good at reading the dates and such on these things so I could use some help before I try incubating one of the eggs. I'm only doing one just to see if it actually works.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Going by the Julian date which I'm assuming is 038 plugging it into the Julian date converter that I googled those eggs were laid/shipped 2-7-17 if I did it right. If so they are too old at least I wouldn't incubate them.

Read the box and see if the Julian date is the 038. Then google Julian date converter. Plug in the number and you'll have the laid date or close enough. Ask clerk sometimes they have a shipment in the back with freshest eggs

I would look for a number closer to 048, which should be closer to today. Mine were 4 days old at time I got them 6 out of 11 hatched. I dropped an egg.

I believe there's a Julian chart to go by as well.

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Thanks for clearing that up.

I haven't had them for long, candled them and they seem normal. One I had tried to incubate last year had some blood in it so I guess it was fertile.

I'm still curious to try, since I normally get cage free eggs...would those work or not?

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

Thanks for clearing that up.

I haven't had them for long, candled them and they seem normal. One I had tried to incubate last year had some blood in it so I guess it was fertile.

I'm still curious to try, since I normally get cage free eggs...would those work or not?

Blood doesn't mean that it was fertile. There can often be a speck of blood or a "meat spot" but those are from the hen. The difference is that an unfertlized egg has a white dot a few millimeters across and a fertile egg has a doughnut shaped white ring just a few millimeters bigger. Cage free and free range has probably close to zero chance of being fertile as mature roosters are freeloaders unless they are selling fertile eggs.
Here's the Julian calendar for 2017: