Walmart Hatching Eggs?? UPDATE..p6

[EdistoChicks]

 

[tigerrrrrrrlilly]

OK here we go!!! I fired up the bator yesterday morning, it is now a steady 100, humidity 30 (I am working on that). Eggs have been set at room temp. for about 16 hours. I will be putting 6 Walmart eggs in tonight for the experiment (along with my duck eggs). I am going to hand turn since I get better hatch rates when I do, especially with older eggs.

I am going to post updates regularly--this is going to be fun.

If they don't work out, I will try with some fresher ones.

 

[incubatingisfun]

candled at day three no growth im going to throw these and when i get back from oregon im going to try some diferent egg

 

[catwalk]

Do you still have the carton your eggs came in? There is a number printed on the side, near the expiration date. It will be a three-digit number in the low 200's. This is the day of the year that the eggs were packaged, and is somewhat independant of the expiration date. Eggs processed today, for example, will be stamped with 228, because it's the 228th day of the year. This will help you figure out how old your eggs are! Older eggs have lower numbers.

 

[Pupsnpullets]

This is an interesting subject as one of my girls always lays bullseye eggs even though I've never had a rooster in her lifetime. There is no possible way her eggs will be fertile unless she's having a liaison with a sparrow.

 

[emvickrey]

I read on a thread several months ago that somebody put a dozen white eggs they got from the grocery store just to see what would happen and some actually hatched. But if they are from Tyson I would'tbother. I don't know what they feet their chickens but I know the ones they use around here are used for egg laying for so many months then they are sent to the plant for processing. Every year they have a program for kids to show chickens at the fair. Every kid wins smoething either as a prize or when their bird is auctioned off. Anyway, The deal is each child enrolled gets 25 day old chicks and 40 lbs of starter to get started for $10. They have to show 3 of them at the fair. Normally the largest ones always win which are usually the same kids every year. Anyway. We did it a couple years ago and decided to keep the hens around for laying eggs. They laid for a little while but they never stopped growing. By the tme we had ended processin mose ot them we had 1 left and she was going to be thanksgiving dinner. She never made it that far because she got so heavy she couldn't walk and the other chickens did her in. Well they ot a head start on it before we caught it. We had to put her out of her misery and buy a turkey for our dinner instead. So unless you want them for meat birds don't bother.

I have no idea of all the chicken processing places are like that but we have Tyson chicken barns and hatcheries and the processing plant all around us here.

 

[cackleberrylinda]

I live in Arlington Washington State ( I think every state has an Arlington) and we have a huge egg farm. Millions of eggs. I tried to work there once upon a time, and it was horrible and a fiasco for both me and the owners. Funny stories there also. But I can guarantee none of those eggs would hatch. The chickens were one or two in tiny little cages where the food came by on a conveyor belt and the eggs went out on a different conveyor belt. I worked quite a few positions there during my 3 day employment but the managers were unable to find a job i could do. Most of it was comical, at least to me. I even did a stint on a conveyor belt where the eggs kept coming and coming and I couldn't keep up. Imagine Lucy and Ethyl only it's eggs. I had dozens and dozens of eggs all over the floor around me. And I couldn't quit laughing. Any way, the head manager didn't laugh. He told me he was going to have to send me out to the chicken house. The job in the chicken house is to walk up and down these long long aisles and when a chicken would have a seizure or blow out, well, we all love chickens so I will just say they are supposed to put them out of their misery. I told him I couldn't do that, I love chickens too much. He threatened to have to let me go. And I allowed as how that was a very good idea. Oh so happy to leave that place.
I guess the moral here is I am so surprised any store bought egg would hatch.
The chickens there were White Leghorns and they were bred for making big eggs. The eggs start small but progressively get bigger and bigger until the chicken can't pass them and they have a blow out. Not a nice thing to do at all. I wonder if our Leghorns that we get will do that also. I have had a leghorn seem like that is what happened. But I don't know.
I do know the only roosters those girls ever met were in the brooder.
I try not to buy those eggs ever. I do not want to support and industry that treats little creatures that abominably. Especially our beloved chickens.

 

[tigerrrrrrrlilly]

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I move the eggs around a lot in my fridge, sometimes transferring my store bought with my ducks etc, to save space. This must have been a pretty old carton I used because it says 084. Now I am not even sure this is the brand at walmart, although I do know that is where these eggs came from no matter what. Well I will give it a shot anyway, and if nothing happens I'll go buy some more.

 

[emvickrey]

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The barns where eggs are laid here aren't that bad. They live very crowded and seldom move around much except to eat drink and lay eggs. They are air conditioned and have access to food and water 24/7. They have nests boxes and under them are a conveyer belt. Twice a day the worker, which is usually a family that Tyson provides them with a house and utilities and a pay check, goes in and makes sure everything is working, remove any dead birds, then go out to where the eggs come off the conveyer and pack them. Scrape off any poop. They have to sort them also by size. The double yolkers go to the places that make dried foods. When the chickens time is up they are gathered and put into cages on a truck and driven to the processing plant. From what I understand, they only go on 2 rides. to the egg laying barns and to the plant for processing. They are hung up by their feet on another conveyer and it runs them through a blade that cuts their head off or slits their troat. I think its off. I worked at the processing plant but I was at the other end where things where boxed up. I got the tour on hire though. I've visited the barns a few times and gotten free eggs.

 

[MuranoFarms]

You absolutely can hatch eggs from the refrigerator! I hatched some farmers market eggs out of the cold section once.

A few weeks ago hubby said the eggs tasted funny then it hit me, Tylan 50! we weren't supposed to eat those eggs! There were 10, so they were probably in the fridge 6 days or more since laying has been spotty due to heat. (I keep hatching eggs on a counter, but eating eggs go into the fridge daily) I had only used the Tylan on 1 splash marans, but have 2 so no way of telling the eggs apart. Instead of pitching them, I let them come to room temp and set them. I hatched 10 marans chicks last week! So, 100% hatch rate on cold eggs. Of course age still plays a part, but apparently cold isn't as bad as we think.

Good luck!

Here's one of the trader joes threads: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=290845