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

[RobG7aChattTN]

Oh, ok. Well, looks like I'll just have to incubate one of the eggs and see what happens. I checked some reference photos of chicken eggs at different stages of development so I have a rough idea of what to look for.

The good thing is that these white eggs are extremely easy to candle. You should be able to use something as simple and as common as the flashlight on your smartphone and see very distinct veins and even a moving embryo which is very distinct from a blood line or infected egg.
Here is an example of one of my Trader Joe's eggs:

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Wow, that's impressive.

Are there any other options for incubating an egg when you don't have an incubator?

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

Wow, that's impressive.

Are there any other options for incubating an egg when you don't have an incubator?

I'm guessing that you meant options for candling when you don't have a candler since the only way to incubate without an incubator is a broody hen. Any flashlight in a dark room can give good results but you want a very bright light concentrated to a point with no light leakage. LED bulbs are far better as they produce less heat.

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Thanks for the tip about the light, though what I meant by incubating was using something like this:


https://www.cuteness.com/article/hatch-chicken-eggs-home-incubator

Not sure how well it works.

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

Thanks for the tip about the light, though what I meant by incubating was using something like this:


https://www.cuteness.com/article/hatch-chicken-eggs-home-incubator

Not sure how well it works.

I'm sure if you used very good quality hatching eggs you might occasionally have one hatch but with the Trader Joe's eggs you'd have very little chance of success.

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Noted, I did find some eggs on eBay that were a good price but the catch with some is the shipping can be high.

I have read people in this thread who tried Trader Joe's eggs and ones from other stores. This is my 3rd try since the other attempts failed.

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

Noted, I did find some eggs on eBay that were a good price but the catch with some is the shipping can be high.

I have read people in this thread who tried Trader Joe's eggs and ones from other stores. This is my 3rd try since the other attempts failed.

Your best (cheapest) would be Craigslist. No shipping!

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Good idea.



Seems like the inside of the egg has gotten somewhat darker than the last time I checked it yesterday.

Would this indicate something is going on?

I plan on looking tomorrow to see if anything changes.

 

[dekel18042]

Oh, ok. Well, looks like I'll just have to incubate one of the eggs and see what happens. I checked some reference photos of chicken eggs at different stages of development so I have a rough idea of what to look for.

If you're looking for hatching eggs, you can go to your state's thread and see if someone near you has fertile eggs you can hatch. If you tell them you want to hatch, they wouldn't refrigerate and would turn them several times a day until you picked them up. Since they weren't shipped you should have a decent hatch rate.

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Thanks for the tip.

The egg I have now seems to be getting darker inside today compared to last night.

Could this indicate something is going on?

I plan to check tomorrow to see what happens.