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

[RobG7aChattTN]

no need to try to feather sex these as the boys are extremely obvious at just few weeks...btw my chick from a trader joes hen and an araucana roo just started laying the most amazing everyday green/blue eggs. She is rumpless, peacomb, clean faced white with orange flecks.[/quote]
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I plan on putting a few of these TJ's pullets in with my Cream Legbars to make "Saphires" or "Super Blue Egg Layers". I was wondering if the eggs would be blue or green as I think the TJ's birds lay a slightly tinted egg...not white due to the roo they use.

 

[ronott1]

no need to try to feather sex these as the boys are extremely obvious at just few weeks...btw my chick from a trader joes hen and an araucana roo just started laying the most amazing everyday green/blue eggs. She is rumpless, peacomb, clean faced white with orange flecks.

I plan on putting a few of these TJ's pullets in with my Cream Legbars to make "Saphires" or "Super Blue Egg Layers". I was wondering if the eggs would be blue or green as I think the TJ's birds lay a slightly tinted egg...not white due to the roo they use.[/QUOTE]
Some will be blue but most will be green--If they are like the ones I hatched last year. This years hatch is 9 weeks old this friday--I am getting to about 10 weeks from getting eggs from them. I can't wait to see what color this batch will lay.

 

[ronott1]

Here are some pictures for the New Year's Day hatch:

Cockerels:




Pullets:

 

[Molpet]

Modern Farmer mentioned you all in an article "..... But fertile eggs can, if treated properly, hatch. Users of the forums on BackyardChickens.com have extensive threads about incubating and hatching fertile Trader Joe’s eggs; the chickens hatch normally. (Many of these chickens are named TJ.) So it’s certainly possible to buy an egg at the store and hatch it into a chicken. It just isn’t all that likely, which is why Wils’s baby quail is so fun.'
http://modernfarmer.com/2016/02/inc...-75431405&mc_cid=ed336c1446&mc_eid=7f74486ef9

 

[Egghead_Jr]

OOPS.

I clicked and posted in wrong hatch a long.

 

[ronott1]

Modern Farmer mentioned you all in an article "..... But fertile eggs can, if treated properly, hatch. Users of the forums on BackyardChickens.com have extensive threads about incubating and hatching fertile Trader Joe’s eggs; the chickens hatch normally. (Many of these chickens are named TJ.) So it’s certainly possible to buy an egg at the store and hatch it into a chicken. It just isn’t all that likely, which is why Wils’s baby quail is so fun.'
http://modernfarmer.com/2016/02/inc...-75431405&mc_cid=ed336c1446&mc_eid=7f74486ef9

I hatched 32 out of 45 eggs set this year.

 

[Lelanae]

Some will be blue but most will be green--If they are like the ones I hatched last year. This years hatch is 9 weeks old this friday--I am getting to about 10 weeks from getting eggs from them. I can't wait to see what color this batch will lay.

Are legbar crosses what MFC call Super Blue Egg Layers?

 

[ronott1]

Are legbar crosses what MFC call Super Blue Egg Layers?

Usually they are leghorns crossed with Cream legbars. The TJs chicks that I hatched are from a flock in sonoma county that are a cross of white leghorn x brown Rooster. They are Hyline commercial chickens. You get a light brown egg laying pullet from that cross.

This is a chick that hatched from whole foods fertile eggs--see how dark the eggs are?



If those chicks are crossed with a blue egg layer, you will get a green egg laying pullet--not quite an Olive in color.

Brown egg shell coating is dominant and so is the blue egg shell gene. Nearly all of the eggs from both the Tjs chicks and whole foods will be green.

 

[miniqoos]

Hi guys sorry to jump on here, but could I please join I'm doing an experiment at the moment which includes 3 store bought chicken eggs. It started about a week ago when I realised the difference in fertile and non fertile eggs. The bullseye to be more precise lol so anyway ever since I've cracked a store bought egg I won't say the brand or shop but I've been getting a good ratio of fertile to non fertile eggs so yesterday I went for it and stuck 3 in My homemade incubator, I'm not expecting a hatch but I do want to see if any try and form or wat stage they get to before quitting or hatching! I will keep everyone updated and I will get candling pics, I will be candling them on day 5 not counting yesterday so Monday the 7th

 

[Jessimom]

Hi All,

I just picked up 2 dozen Cage free, organic eggs from TJs. They don't say "FERTILE" but I didn't see any that did. I cracked open 2. The brown egg was infertile. The white looked like it had started to develop. Am I wrong in thinking that?

Do you think there is any chance of these hatching?

Thanks!!