McMurray Hatchery

[firedove]

I ordered 27 chicks from McMurray last February, 5 varieties of large fowl Wyandottes. I received 29 plus my free mystery chick. I lost 1 chick in transit and 1 later to pasty butt that I missed. McMurray refunded for both with no questions asked.

I did have an issue where 4 of the chickens turned out blind but not sure if that was a hatchery problem or a trauma problem, I didn't notice it until I got them into the coop and they are still alive and healthy. They just hang out in the coop, they know where the food and water are and they are very good about following the other chickens if they do decide to go out of the coop. I haven't taken the time to talk to McMurray about them, I'm happy with them so other than wanting to notify them, I'm not interested in complaining. I'm especially attached to my blind roo "Moon," great thing about having a blind sweet roo is that he never crows and is not at all interested in running away or attacking. I can sit him in my lap as long as I would like and he talks to me in quiet murmurs.

The others were all healthy, all of the pullets ordered were pullets, 5 out of 6 of the silver penciled straight run were pullets, 3 out of 6 SR BLRWs were pullets as well. Their personalities are great, one of the GL hens is pushy with the other chickens, but that's typical to have one that wants to be top of the pecking order and makes sure she stays there.

As for quality, I'm pretty happy for hatchery birds! I have a friend that had told me her cousin in NY gets all of his show Wyandottes from McMurray and I was skeptical, but with the way mine turned out they really can be quite nice.

My free rare chick was a SSH roo.

 

[PandoraTaylor]

I thought the hatcheries all did the day old vaccines?

hmmm learn something new everyday.

As I haven't ordered chicks, I have no info to add here.

 

[thedeacon]

I ordered 25 in the spring, all but 1 made it. Ordered again this fall, again all but 1 doing great. Both orders, received what I ordered plus a couple.

 

[Willjg]

Hey there,

I've ordered from a variety of the hatcheries....And I have to say McMurray is my #1 favorite for sure. I am hoping to order from them again in the spring just to get a few new layers since the birds I got from them were always the healthiest.

Actually the oldest chicken I ever had was from McMurray, a standard cochin----she lived to be about 8 years old.

Take Care,
Bill.

 

[urbanolive]

Good and bad for us...
We ordered 39 peeps from them back in August. 100 % survival ! I wasn't expecting that at all. The one mystery chick turned out to be an EE roo we love named Edwardo. The only problem I had was that we ordered 25 straight run standard Cochins. After giving away all the boring, exactly the same brown ones we only ended up with 2 hens! And they sent feather feet bantams which I specifically did not want ,wanted large standard cochins. They are tiny and have dirty feather feet ! Oh well, I could live with the featherfeet but by the time we realized they weren't going to get any bigger it was probably too late to make a fuss about it. Our RIR's are also bossy and mean as are the Buff O's. I wonder if it has anything to do with their strains, who knows. I LOVE the barred rocks and Americauna/EE's or whatever they are, they are gorgeous. I would definately order from them again if it was my only option. We have since found a wonderful local farm that raises them all organic and guarantees girls...

 

[Namble]

I ordered the rainbow layer assortment and got some SSH in it. And one of the SSH has the wrong comb! Its supposed to Have Rose comb but it has Single comb!

 

[chickendude]

to Murray McMurray I ordered 25 RIR girls. They sent me 28 RIR ( all turned out to be girls ) and 1 free silver laced polish that is a roo. Every bird gave eggs by 20 weeks, the roo is a complete gentlemen and all survived and are very healthy. I give them a 100% thumbs up.

 

[Bizzybirdy]

I ordered 25 Cornish X's from McMurray and they all arrived in great shape on Mother's Day last year! I had them vaccinated and ordered MM's vitamin powder. ALL were healthy, happy and grew extremely well. The extra "mystery chick" they sent turned out to be a splash Andalusian roo who was POW here on BYC about a month ago!!

Am very happy with my order from them and will order some layers in the Spring.

 

[kelidei]

I also had a great experience with McMurray. I ordered 25 of the brown egg layers got 6 different breeds. one ended up being a Columbian Wyandotte roo and my freebie was a blue andalusian roo. Healthy and happy--- good birds and good layers. out of 24 girls I average 12-18 eggs a day--- once in a while they'll slack off I'll just get 8-10--- they are moulting right now and I am getting a few eggs less but still pretty dang good. My only complaint is that they do not ship less than 25--- barring any tragedies I don't fore see ordering that many at once again---- I want to get several more EE's and RIRs in the spring--- but not 25!!! Late summer I ordered 16 chicks from My Pet Chicken and had a great experience with them too---- I'll probably use them because they will ship smaller numbers---- and they do it very well all arrived healthy and happy--- beautiful birds--- they aren't laying yet but I suspect by Jan-early March we should start getting some eggs.