by McMurray Staff | Feb 14, 2023 | Building Your Flock, Chicken Breeds
Our “Building Your Flock” blog series is designed to help you pick your perfect breeds as you peruse our catalog and scroll the website. We’re getting festive for the second article of this series by focusing on our dark brown layers for...
by McMurray Staff | Feb 7, 2023 | Backyard Chickens, Gail Damerow, Guest Articles
When winter weather turns cold, chickens can suffer from frostbite. Continuing our interview series with Gail Damerow, poultry expert and best-selling author, we ask her for recommendations on how to treat and prevent frostbite in chickens. How does frostbite occur?...
by McMurray Staff | Jan 9, 2023 | Building Your Flock, Chicken Breeds
As we begin our 2023 hatching season, the team here at McMurray is excited to share a new “Building Your Flock” blog series, designed to help you pick your perfect breeds as you peruse our catalog and website. In our first article of this series, we are...
by McMurray Staff | Jan 5, 2023 | Backyard Chickens, Backyard Poultry, Gail Damerow, Guest Articles, Poultry Health
When and how to deworm chickens has become a controversial subject among backyard flock owners. Continuing our interview series with Gail Damerow, poultry expert and best-selling author, we ask her recommendations on how to deworm chickens as a follow up to her...
by McMurray Staff | Jan 2, 2023 | Backyard Chickens, Chicken Coops, Guest Articles, Janet Garman, Poultry Health
While some of you are already in the thick of cold weather, many of us are just hitting the point of closing the coop windows and fluffing up the straw for winter in the coop. Keeping chickens comfortable during winter weather is a top concern for new chicken owners,...
