Under the username @aliceintkland, Alice Bowie poses the question to her viewers, "Were you aware that you could hatch eggs from Trader Joe's?" She purchased fertile eggs to experiment with, as she explains in her viral TikTok video.
Bowie, who teaches kindergarten in the Bay Area, added the nine Trader Joe's eggs to a batch of farm-fresh eggs that she was incubating for her students. She labeled the Trader Joe's eggs with "TJ" to differentiate them from the others.
After waiting for exactly 21 days, Alice Bowie reported in a TikTok voiceover that her team checked on the eggs regularly until they finally hatched. She was thrilled to announce that three of the fluffy yellow chicks were from Trader Joe's.
Despite only one-third of the eggs hatching, Bowie considered it a success because she had no information about the eggs' origins, how long they had been refrigerated, or how they had been transported.
Both Alice Bowie and Trader Joe's have been contacted by Fox News Digital for their comments.
Alice Bowie documented the entire process of incubating and hatching the eggs, including labeling and placing them in the incubator, in a series of videos. The footage shows the same eggs hatching into fluffy yellow chicks.
In a subsequent video, Alice Bowie addresses the doubts of skeptics by presenting the viewpoint of one of her hatchlings and affirming the authenticity of their birth.
The voiceover declares, "Although some of you may be skeptical about my origin, I can confirm that I indeed hatched from a Trader Joe's egg!"
According to an article published by the Michigan State University (MSU) agricultural extension office, while it is technically possible to hatch eggs purchased from a grocery store, it is not a common occurrence.
According to an article, youth who study chicken embryology learn that a chicken can only develop from a fertilized egg. The majority of eggs sold in grocery stores are not fertilized and come from poultry farms. Additionally, laying hens at commercial farms are typically not exposed to roosters.
In a YouTube video published on February 20, 2022, The Homestead Trail account owner shared that after experimenting with various egg purchases, she successfully hatched a chick from an egg bought at Trader Joe's.
