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

[gabrielle1976]

Well they will be good layers and probly not bad meat birds regardless of how confused we are about what they are right lol

 

[Peep_Show]

There's a cross of Australorp and Leghorn which gives a dotted chick....makes me think that might be it if the primaries are coming in white.

As far as yellow chicks from brown eggs, there's several possibilities.... (1) They're sex-link males or (2) they're mutts or mixed breed (such as a sex-link hen bred to something else).

It will be interesting to see what the chicks mature to..... Sure did enjoy the chick cam, Pele!

 

[ProfTi]

Can't Wait to try this!

 

[gabrielle1976]

I went in to HoodRiver to get some spent grains for my chickens ( they didnt have any by the time I got there even though It had only been a few hours since I called

but I stopped by the store and got a dozen of the rock island fertile eggs , I was hopefull as it is friday and when I asked them about it I thought I remmberd them saying they were getting some new ones on friday but the date on the carton says ;
Use by date of Jan 31st and that funky number of 352... , I have never relly figures out how to read that but I thought I read somewhere that it goes by days of the year so would that make these ones 17 days old already? I asked the girl about if they would actualy ship the store eggs that old and she was like sure

. Someone tell me Im reading the dates wrong.

This is the carton.
I love how they say 100% vegtible diet ( probly means the poor chickens get food thats all corn and soybean meal.)
I looked through a few cartons and tried to find one with the best size , and shaped eggs withought visble cracks but was in kind aa hurry and missed a few that the shells look a bit pourous and almost wrinkley, Oh well my plans for how I was gnna incubate them went all arwry and now Im ahve to figure out what to do with them lol.

 

[Pele]

I went in to HoodRiver to get some spent grains for my chickens ( they didnt have any by the time I got there even though It had only been a few hours since I called

but I stopped by the store and got a dozen of the rock island fertile eggs , I was hopefull as it is friday and when I asked them about it I thought I remmberd them saying they were getting some new ones on friday but the date on the carton says ;
Use by date of Jan 31st and that funky number of 352... , I have never relly figures out how to read that but I thought I read somewhere that it goes by days of the year so would that make these ones 17 days old already? I asked the girl about if they would actualy ship the store eggs that old and she was like sure

. Someone tell me Im reading the dates wrong.

This is the carton.
I love how they say 100% vegtible diet ( probly means the poor chickens get food thats all corn and soybean meal.)
I looked through a few cartons and tried to find one with the best size , and shaped eggs withought visble cracks but was in kind aa hurry and missed a few that the shells look a bit pourous and almost wrinkley, Oh well my plans for how I was gnna incubate them went all arwry and now Im ahve to figure out what to do with them lol.

You are reading the date right. That's going by the # of days it is into the year. Right now the number would read 004 because it's the fourth day of the year.

You'd be surprised how many stores actually carry these! We have at least 3 locally. And we're not the most liberal state in the world .

 

[oldrooster]

I went in to HoodRiver to get some spent grains for my chickens ( they didnt have any by the time I got there even though It had only been a few hours since I called

but I stopped by the store and got a dozen of the rock island fertile eggs , I was hopefull as it is friday and when I asked them about it I thought I remmberd them saying they were getting some new ones on friday but the date on the carton says ;
Use by date of Jan 31st and that funky number of 352... , I have never relly figures out how to read that but I thought I read somewhere that it goes by days of the year so would that make these ones 17 days old already? I asked the girl about if they would actualy ship the store eggs that old and she was like sure

. Someone tell me Im reading the dates wrong.

This is the carton.
I love how they say 100% vegtible diet ( probly means the poor chickens get food thats all corn and soybean meal.)
I looked through a few cartons and tried to find one with the best size , and shaped eggs withought visble cracks but was in kind aa hurry and missed a few that the shells look a bit pourous and almost wrinkley, Oh well my plans for how I was gnna incubate them went all arwry and now Im ahve to figure out what to do with them lol.

December 17th is the packed on date the Julian calendar 366 days due to it being a leap year....

 

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Ok I'm going to join here too since my eggs were the the fridge for a week before I set them just now. I hope you don't mind me joining. They aren't from the store, they're from a friend that lives out of town. He has the prettiest hen that looks like a silver laced Wyandotte but lays green eggs. The roosters with her look like wyandottes too. Probably her brothers but oh well. I also set some dark brown mystery eggs. So 3 Green and 3 brown

 

[Bettacreek]

Sounds like leghorn mixes. They'll get the spots under the dominant white color.

 

[Pele]

Woohoo! The egg that I set from our local grocery co-op is peeping!! It's supposed to be a second generation Gold Comet (yeah I know it all falls apart after the first cross), according to the poor lady who I totally creeped out at the store. *sigh*

 

[gabrielle1976]

They do act so shocked and wierded out when you mention trying to hatch eggs from the store or what not , I wonder if its because they dont want to think bout the eggs they are eating as able to grow babies