Trader Joe’s Customer Buys Fertilized Eggs and Shows How to Hatch Baby Chicks From Them

Mar. 15, 2025

The California Home Wednesday, Feb. 12 TikTok.Photo:@thecaliforniahome/Tiktok

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One Trader Joe’s customer has done the unexpected with her carton of eggs.

The video opened with a shot of the fertile, cage-free eggs still in their cardboard Trader Joes carton and the caption “24 days ago, we bought these eggs.”

She explained that her family placed the eggs in an incubator for 21 days, posting video of her son and daughter looking at the incubator.

It followed with a shot of the hatched eggs and one of the chicks walking in the incubator. The video was captioned: “Almost all of them hatched…”

“And now we have 8 chicks,” she added in the next clip of her son playing with all eight of the chicks in their grassy lawn.

She concluded the video with a snippet of all of the chicks together in a makeshift coop. “No egg shortage here 🐣!” she quipped.

“Now I can’t eat eggs,” one person wrote. Another added: “Stop, I’m literally never going to eat eggs again 😭😭😭😭😭😭.”

“Hey so this is crazy,” added another user.

Chicks emerge from incubated fertile Trader Joe’s eggs.@thecaliforniahome/Tiktok

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The chicks that hatched from fertile Trader Joe’s eggs.@thecaliforniahome/Tiktok

“There are no adverse effects from eating a fertilized egg, nor is there any taste difference. You can prepare and serve fertilized eggs just as you would unfertilized ones,” Backyard Chicken Coops’ site reads.

A representative for Trader Joe’s did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for more information on Thursday.

source: people.com