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

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Ok, nothing so far today but I keep seeing faint dark lines inside. Not sure if those are veins or just something on the egg shell.

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Disregard my last post....

Has anyone tried hatching organic free range or cage free eggs?

 

[bauerdog]

Ok, nothing so far today but I keep seeing faint dark lines inside. Not sure if those are veins or just something on the egg shell.

How long have the eggs been incubating for? It takes at least 5 to 7 days to really see much inside them.....

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

How long have the eggs been incubating for? It takes at least 5 to 7 days to really see much inside them.....

I had started on Sunday but the eggs are two weeks old according to the date on the carton and one I checked that wasn't incubated looked fertile but considering their age, I'm not sure if anything would have happened.

 

[bauerdog]

I had started on Sunday but the eggs are two weeks old according to the date on the carton and one I checked that wasn't incubated looked fertile but considering their age, I'm not sure if anything would have happened.

You won't be able to see any development this early, just about 48 hours won't give you enough to see much yet. There are charts on here of what development looks like the whole 21 days. Remember the day you set is considered day zero. I know it is hard to wait to candle, but realistically 7 days is the earliest to gauge fertility. Believe me, I love to candle

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

You won't be able to see any development this early, just about 48 hours won't give you enough to see much yet. There are charts on here of what development looks like the whole 21 days. Remember the day you set is considered day zero. I know it is hard to wait to candle, but realistically 7 days is the earliest to gauge fertility. Believe me, I love to candle

I see.

If you look at my thread, What do I do now? I explain my mistake and what happened.

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

Has anyone tried to incubate farm fresh eggs from Trader Joe's?

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

Has anyone tried to incubate farm fresh eggs from Trader Joe's?

Even if there were a rooster or two that slipped through out of the 100,000 hens on an egg farm it would just be cheaper to buy hatching eggs at almost any normal price than to buy eggs with such a slight chance of fertility. It's easy to tell a rooster from a hen and since roosters don't lay eggs they certainly won't bother to keep them around unless they are specifically trying to sell fertile eggs. In the broiler houses they go through every day removing birds that have bad legs, crossed beaks, runts, star-gazers, etc. I'm sure they do the same when they raise birds as layers and they would quickly remove any roosters as well.

 

[Gayle-the-Australorp]

You have a point.

I was just asking out of curiosity.

 

[DragonParadigm]

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It was your little experiment that got my daughter and I thinking about hatching grocery store eggs. Trader Joe's ended up being a success for us since there are so many local stores and their fertile egg supplier is only about 30 miles away from us. There are many times I see eggs 3 days old in our local Trader Joe's. From the post I have read, it looks like fertile eggs in Trader Joe's is a West Coast thing.

Anyone have recent pictures of the TJs chicks or chickens to post? I took this one yesterday.

Posing!!!!!