by McMurray Staff | Feb 14, 2017 | Chickens, McMurray Hatchery, Raising Chickens
Note: The following article will appear in an upcoming issue of Dirt Magazine discussing Murray McMurray Hatchery’s stance on the mail order chick business. The growth of the farm-to-table movement wouldn’t be as successful as it is today without the mail order chick...
by McMurray Staff | Nov 2, 2016 | Contests, McMurray Hatchery
The 2017 Murray McMurray catalog — our 100th Anniversary catalog — will be extra special next year with a little help from some of our friends who have submitted photos to one of our photo contests. These photos were selected for use in the upcoming anniversary...
by McMurray Staff | Feb 11, 2016 | McMurray Hatchery
Background: As we’ve mentioned previously, in May of 2015, Murray McMurray Hatchery brought a truckload of 3,700 newly-hatched chicks to Joe Claborn’s farm in Texas for safekeeping as Avian Influenza was spreading in the U.S. and in Iowa. The project has...
by McMurray Staff | Aug 24, 2015 | McMurray Hatchery
Background: Joe Claborn has worked with McMurray Hatchery for many years and currently raises started chicks and started pullets for McMurray. Joe is also involved with a project that Bud Wood, president of McMurray Hatchery, initiated to start backup flocks for many...
by McMurray Staff | Aug 12, 2015 | McMurray Hatchery
Background: Joe Claborn has worked with McMurray Hatchery for many years and currently raises started chicks and started pullets for McMurray. Joe is also involved with a project that Bud Wood, president of McMurray Hatchery, initiated to start backup flocks for many...
by McMurray Staff | Jul 23, 2015 | McMurray Hatchery
As Avian Influenza (AI) has continued to spread in the United States and Iowa, in particular, we began making arrangements in May of this year for how we could start some backup flocks. Although the strains of AI found in the U.S. have not affected or posed any direct...
