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

[silly4buttons]

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[CraziChic]

I'd love to be a member, except for hatching from another store... I'm currently hatching some from a farm store that are not supposed to be fertile, but they are growing!

 

[mollychick2013]

I am going to pick some eggs up from Trader joes tomorrow and put a couple in with the batch I have going now. That would be fun....

 

[afveteran88]

Good luck, last time I did it I got 50% hatch rate. It was fun but I have better success using locally bought freash eggs. I'm crazy for even thinking about starting my incubator in October but I am.

 

[Manningjw]

Good luck, last time I did it I got 50% hatch rate. It was fun but I have better success using locally bought freash eggs. I'm crazy for even thinking about starting my incubator in October but I am.

I am right there with you! I just turned on my incubator today to test out the temps.

I just wish the TJ's in my state carried the fertile eggs you have in California. I have yet to see fertile eggs in any stores in Washington state.

 

[mollychick2013]

I am right there with you! I just turned on my incubator today to test out the temps.

I just wish the TJ's in my state carried the fertile eggs you have in California. I have yet to see fertile eggs in any stores in Washington state.

Yeah, i didnt find any at the TJ in olympia. I know other stores in the area have them though, so I might try them.

 

[Nomibear]

I have recently contacted both the new Trader Joes, and the Whole Foods here in San Antonio, both of the people i talked to thought i was crazy... ~Naomi

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have recently contacted both the new Trader Joes, and the Whole Foods here in San Antonio, both of the people i talked to thought i was crazy... ~Naomi

It's really hard for them to wrap their heads around it.

The TJ here doesn't carry fertile eggs and the WF has them but they're always a couple weeks old when they get them. They travel from the farm in Wisconsin, then to the distribution center in Chicago and eventually to St. Louis.

 

[ozexpat]

It's really hard for them to wrap their heads around it.

The TJ here doesn't carry fertile eggs and the WF has them but they're always a couple weeks old when they get them. They travel from the farm in Wisconsin, then to the distribution center in Chicago and eventually to St. Louis.

the eggs i hatched from tjs were 18 days old. 14/24 hatched

 

[bhaugh]

I didnt want to comment as to not jinx myself and my $2.99 tj eggs. I live in Vegas and they are sold at every tj to my knowledge. I just bought a bator and wanted to do a test run so thought "Hey what the hell, Ill give them a go. I used the julian calendar and the eggs were only 4 days old so I popped them in the bator. Today is day 23 and Ive had 3 hatch. One got his leg and head wrapped around the yolk cord and somewhere lost his egg tooth so by the time I decided to do the "don't help them out" I realized he would have never gotten out. He was beginning to shrink wrap and it was beginning to pull away from the shell. For now he is doing ok.

I posted in the Oct hatch a long but I think the idea of incubating tj eggs was a waste of time for most and I didnt get any response at all. Thats ok though, I still think its a great way to learn what your bator can do and what you need to do to have a successful hatch with eggs that will cost a bit more. I would do it again. Yay tj!

Barb