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

One TikTok user documented her decision to incubate the fertilized eggs, later showing off the eight chicks that hatched

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

Rather than consuming them, she incubated the fertilized eggs. And a few weeks later, they hatched eight baby chicks. She documented the entire journey on the TikTok account called @thecaliforniahome.

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…”

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“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