unknown breed hatched from grocery eggs

[smokeykk]

Production red is a non show quality, smaller version of the Rhode Island Red. Here are mine that I got from TSC this past spring

Cockerel

and Pullet

 

[dolly85]

Looks like you've got some leghorn and RIR (PR) chicks, possibly mixed. The hens will be GREAT layers for you!

 

[Chickens_in_a_nutshell]

Just in my opinion, I think the yellow ones are white Leghorns and the brownish-red ones are Rhode Island Reds.

 

[Judy]

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I believe you're asking how to tell whether an uncracked egg is fertile, and the answer to that is, you can't, unless you incubate it. If you crack it, you can tell by the "bullseye:"
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008

Since in this country, eggs for eating are refrigerated, the chance of finding a developing chick in a grocery store egg are essentially none. When I first learned this, I was still eating (cheap) store bought eggs, so I started looking for bullseyes. I thought I found a few. At least some of the videos of layers show huge rooms full of thousands of layers. I doubt it's worth their while to catch and remove the occasional roo who gets put in with the layers by mistake -- but obviously I'm just guessing.

Ridgerunner wrote:

But not all egg production is for grocery eggs. Some places sell hatching eggs to hatcheries or to places that raise broilers or laying chickens. They have contracts to supply a certain number of eggs. Where do you think the excess hatching eggs go, the ones that they don't have a contract for? Do you think they are just going to throw them away? This is going to be a minute portion of the eggs available at the store, but they are there.

To be honest, I hadn't thought of excess eggs intended for hatching meat birds finding their way into the eating egg pool. Makes sense, though.​

 

[debid]

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Do you really believe that your brother accidentally left eggs on his counter for 21 days and it was roughly 100F and humid in his kitchen that entire time? You should tell him you know better and ask where he really got them. Then, you can contact the seller and ask what they were offering at the time. Doing so will significantly narrow down the list of possibilities and make it easier for folks here to tell you which of those possibilities you have.

 

[nobodyherebutuschickens]

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[sweeterdeeter42]

Eggs do not have to be roughly 100 degrees and humid all the time to hatch. Ive had them in a pile with no one setting on them and the temp between 70 and 99 and the humidity whatever it was outside and they still hatched. People on here talk about random eggs hatching in their garbage cans and on their porches and all over the place. Plus the humidity people use to hatch eggs in incubators varies greatly. So it is not an impossibility.