by McMurray Staff | Dec 13, 2018 | Chicken Eggs, Featured, Gail Damerow, Guest Articles, Raising Chickens
Continuing our series with poultry expert and best-selling author, Gail Damerow, we talk to her about egg quality. The internal quality of an egg is determined by the appearance and consistency of the contents inside the shell, which you can examine by breaking a...
by McMurray Staff | Sep 19, 2018 | Chicken Eggs, Gail Damerow, Guest Articles, Interviews
Raising a laying flock is a rewarding experience, especially when you start to collect an assortment of fresh eggs daily. Each year we receive many questions from new questions about egg production, egg issues, laying hen health and more. In this article in our series...
by McMurray Staff | Aug 23, 2018 | Chicken Eggs, Gail Damerow, Guest Articles, Interviews
Photo by Robert W. Miller, 2018 McMurray Hatchery Spring is in the Air photo contest. Raising and keeping a flock of laying hens can be very rewarding once you start gathering colorful fresh eggs daily. But, when complications arise, such as prolapse or an egg-bound...
by McMurray Staff | Aug 2, 2018 | Chicken Eggs, Gail Damerow, Guest Articles, Interviews
Pictured above: Buff Orpingtons, Black Australorps, Red Star, and Pearl White Leghorn. Photo by CJ Zuppan, 2018 McMurray Hatchery Spring is in the Air photo contest. When you raise chicks to start a laying flock, it may seem to take forever before you see their first...
