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

[chick4chix]

Yah, mine's near a fence and tree, and raccoons climb, so I'm really hoping this stuff will be too hard for them to gnaw through (19 gauge) It's the minimum suggested on this site, and lets face it, it's already expensive!, can't afford to go thicker .

We have raccoons too, and the chicks are locked up tight in their coop. The run has chicken wire screwed to a 2"x4" frame all the way around and into the ground a bit, and as I said the bird net top was for hawks and the leghorns (who I had read could fly like an eagle but until yesterday I hadn't seen it .
Your hardware cloth will be great- they won't get through.
Have fun with your pullets!

 

[cluck-cluck]

Thanks They also have a coop for night time. It should be fun once I finish the run and other coop! So much to do, but turning out so nice, I'm happy!

 

[Pele]

Oh man, why did I have to find this thread? And why did my town just get their first Whole Foods? And why oh why do I get incubator's itch every December?

*sigh* heading over tonight for a looksie...

 

[chick4chix]

Oh man, why did I have to find this thread? And why did my town just get their first Whole Foods? And why oh why do I get incubator's itch every December?

*sigh* heading over tonight for a looksie...

HAHA!! Welcome to TJ hatch club, Pele! I think another hatch addict is coming this way!

hope your whole foods has fertile eggs

Good Luck

 

[Pele]

Got some eggs!!!




I cracked two open and both were fertile. Color me impressed! I'll let them warm up and place them into the incubator. Color me addicted!

 

[chick4chix]

Got some eggs!!!




I cracked two open and both were fertile. Color me impressed! I'll let them warm up and place them into the incubator. Color me addicted!

WOOHOO!!!

That's great news! I wonder what breed they are from- with the brown eggs? Do you know? Now we'll be watching

to see how they come along. FUN FUN FUN!!! Congrats on Fertile eggs!

 

[Pele]

Thanks

I think there were two different breeds in there because there were two different color browns. Most likely they were some variety of Red SLs for most of them (hatcheries like using those so they can weed out males early). Their eggs were identical to my SL girls. Then they had a lighter colored egg that I thought might be a Barred Rock.

I'll pop them in the incubator tonight after I figure out how to put a divider in there.. It'll be a staggered hatch a week behind my Marans. Kind of like insurance

Edited to add: BTW, that vegetable diet advertisement on the carton cracks me up. People be crazy.

 

[chick4chix]

Thanks

I think there were two different breeds in there because there were two different color browns. Most likely they were some variety of Red SLs for most of them (hatcheries like using those so they can weed out males early). Their eggs were identical to my SL girls. Then they had a lighter colored egg that I thought might be a Barred Rock.

I'll pop them in the incubator tonight after I figure out how to put a divider in there.. It'll be a staggered hatch a week behind my Marans. Kind of like insurance

Edited to add: BTW, that vegetable diet advertisement on the carton cracks me up. People be crazy.

You're probably right on the Sex Links. It'll be fun to see what hatches.

I agree with you on the "vegetarian diet" label- I am forever telling people that means that the chickens are not allowed outdoors where they can get bugs (most people don't understand chickens are omnivores- NOT vegetarians (herbivores)

 

[chickenfu]

Ok, I just joined. My husband thinks I am silly! I have a broody Australorp and I thought it would be a fun thing to do so I bought a dozen TJ's and stuck them under her. My expectations are low, it's November, doesn't seem like the right time to be doing this but the weather is mild here and she seems determined (she has been trying to hatch a decoy egg for weeks). So, who knows?

 

[GardeNerd]

Ok, I just joined. My husband thinks I am silly! I have a broody Australorp and I thought it would be a fun thing to do so I bought a dozen TJ's and stuck them under her. My expectations are low, it's November, doesn't seem like the right time to be doing this but the weather is mild here and she seems determined (she has been trying to hatch a decoy egg for weeks). So, who knows?

Hi Chickenfu and welcome to the club. I have done the same thing with my determined broodies, 3 or 4 times since we first did our science project in January 2009. Here in SoCal, with the mild weather, winter hatches haven't been an issue for us. The broody mama hen is always happy, as long as one TJ's egg hatches. I gave my Black Cochin 4 eggs about two months ago. Only one hatched, but she was a happy and proud mama never the less.