{"id":3887,"date":"2009-08-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-23T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:14:16","slug":"murray-mcmurray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/murray-mcmurray\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray McMurray Hatchery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been buying baby chicks by U.S. mail from Murray McMurray Hatchery for 30-plus years. We&#8217;ll get a call from the postmaster, sometimes a bit flustered, because there&#8217;s a box there with peeping chicks awaiting pick-up. We&#8217;ll go get them and set them up with a light and feed and water, and lo and behold in three months we&#8217;ll have laying hens.<\/p>\n<p>Minimum order is 25, so the chicks can warm each other in transit. We raise all of them and when they are teenaged, give or sell to neighbors. Raising 25 is no sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Why get chickens by mail and not from your local feed store? McMurray has been in business for 90 years and their birds are of excellent stock. Lots of varieties to choose from. We&#8217;ve had not only Rhode Island Reds, Partridge Rocks and Auracanas for steady egg production, but exotics such as Cochins and Polish, as well as meat birds. They&#8217;ve all been top quality.<\/p>\n<p>Get Murray&#8217;s hard copy catalog if you want to start a flock. Wonderful to look through. A few tips:<br \/>\n1. A dozen hens will give you plenty of eggs for you and your neighbors.<br \/>\n2. If you want fertile eggs, plan on ending up with one rooster for every dozen hens.<br \/>\n3. In more urban areas, get 4 or 5 hens, no rooster.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have your own fresh eggs, you&#8217;ll never want store eggs again.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicks by mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[1350,2307],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24939,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/24939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}