by McMurray Staff | May 18, 2018 | Interviews, McMurray Hatchery, Recipes
PICTURED ABOVE: Tom and Ashley Watkins of McMurray Hatchery In this second article in the Meet Our Team blog series, we are talking to Tom and Ashley Watkins. Not only are they family, but they are the face of McMurray Hatchery — see photos of their flock, coop and...
by McMurray Staff | May 15, 2018 | Contests, McMurray Hatchery
Warmer weather is finally here and it’s time for our 2nd annual Spring is in the Air photo contest! We want to see how your flock is spending its Spring days. Now through May 23rd, enter photos of your Spring chickens. Send us photos of your baby chicks, fresh...
by McMurray Staff | May 4, 2018 | Interviews, McMurray Hatchery
PICTURED ABOVE: McMurray Hatchery President and Owner, Bud Wood, in our recently restored 1940 Dodge truck that was used by the Hatchery in the 1940s and 1950s. McMurray Hatchery is a family-owned business that has been serving generations of poultry owners for...
by McMurray Staff | Mar 26, 2018 | Events, McMurray Hatchery, Poultry Equipment
This month the McMurray Hatchery team was honored to be invited to present at the Iowa Organic Association’s On-Farm Poultry Processing workshop. The event brought together poultry owners from across the state to learn about everything from regulations on selling...
by McMurray Staff | Feb 28, 2018 | Chicken Breeds, Contests, McMurray Hatchery
Congratulations to our February contest winner, Jessica Szachury. Her Whiting True Blue photo is the winner in our February 2018 Tinted Egg Layers photo contest. Jessica will receive a $50 gift certificate to McMurray Hatchery. Click here to see all the entries in...
by McMurray Staff | Jan 9, 2018 | Chicken Breeds, McMurray Hatchery
It’s 2018. After a very busy 100th anniversary year, and some much-deserved time off over the holidays, the McMurray Hatchery team is back to work and has started prepping for the first hatch of the season — cleaning, readying the boxes, monitoring the incubators,...