The Best Chicken Breeds for YOU | Talking Chickens at Murray McMurray Hatchery
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- I'm at Murray McMurray Hatchery talking about the best chicken breeds for YOU!
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Watching these two geek out over chickens puts a huge smile on my face. They should start a chicken pod cast. I know I'd subscribe to it. 😊😊😊
I put frozen berries in the water in the summer sometimes or some ice. It's so cute watching them bob for berries and it keeps them cool and hydrated.
This is so creative its so hot where we live and I worry about my chickens thank you for sharing this idea!
Little fluffy potato chips is hysterical. 💕.
I need more chickens like I need a splinter in my toe, but I ordered a catalogue anyway 🤣
Maybe that's why Ben called them "baby chips" 🤣
oh yea I forgot about that lol!
To someone who has yet to start her flock of chickens (however small it might be, lol) this was a very helpful video. Thank you, Jess, and thank you, Tom!
Dont be shy jump in, hens are easy to care for and chicken berries are a great reward. Find a neighbor and split a order great way to gain a friend and these guys birds are always worth it.
@@master6676 I have some very large dental bills (I am talking thousand upon thousands) that I have to take care of first. Don't assume it's about being reticent.
I live in Florida. My chickens are pets so they are spoiled. I put usb fans in each nest box as well as a exhaust fan. I have a mixed flock of Polish and colored egg layers.
I live 30 minutes from this hatchery! Very cool!
I have SOOOOO enjoyed your 3 videos at Mc Murray's Hatchery. I have always been fascinated by all birds. There is such diversity in chicken breeds.... they are amazing and beautiful animals. Thank you Jess, Tom (and Miah) for bringing us along on this field trip. I loved seeing the baby chips. The ones with the Egyptian eye liner blew my mind.
Yay for chickens!! I’m going to get some babies tomorrow!! 👏👏👏👏👏
2 years of begging my husband.... he is building the coup! ♥️
If you go back next year, please consider flashing pictures of the breeds in one part of the screen. More work for you, but possibly more profit for them, due to the "...Oooh, I want that" factor.
Love your page.
Happy farming
Yes please newbie here
Great Interview, Jess! I feel like i'm there with both of you. Such a nice vibe, down to earth!
Love all those chickens,told my nephew about McMurray's and he recently ordered 15 chickens
I never knew I could be so excited to see a upload! Just recently came across ur channel a few weeks ago cuz I'm trying to start my own homestead. Chickens and garden first and want to slowly add
We are about to order more chickens for our 6 acre homestead. We love our Orpingtons. ❤️🌻🐔❤️Amazing to see family owned businesses that have been in business for many many years. So exciting to watch this. Thanks for sharing and interviewing McMurray Hatchery. I learn something new every time. 🌻🐔❤️
I lived in Derbshire for 10 years. Beautiful
Oh my goodness, such a fun video! Thanks for sharing your adventure! We currently have 6 hens in the coop, 24 5wk old chicks in the garage, and 3 one week old frizzled chicks in the house... chicken math is definitely a real thing!!🙈
Got my first MMc catalog in about 1964. Like you, I memorized it. I was so into chickens and have been ever since. When I went to college, I majored in agriculture, and naturally, had to take a Poultry Production class. I was so bored because I felt like I knew more than the elderly professor doing the teaching, especially during the part of the class that dealt with chicken breeds.
I found it interesting when you two were giving your favorites, that appearance had such a large part of your choices. Most TH-camrs talk about the best breeds for production and dual purpose and so on. While I too am a lover of pretty chickens, I mainly consider production for my favorites. However, I am guilty of trying to breed my Ameracanas for the blue/gray color just for fun. Had a major setback when my only blue rooster died and I simply could not find another gray rooster in our area. I also will not incubate any cream or pink eggs from them. Outcrossed with white leghorns one year to increase size and number of eggs. I am going to outcross again this year because egg size has shrunk again. Naturally, I have a lot of birds with single combs and no beard but that is OK for what I am trying to do.
Also been breeding other breeds to ISA browns for about 10 years, saving back roosters to breed to the ISA brown hens. Now have a small flock of birds that are genetically about 127/128th ISA brown. Have to order new ISA Brown pullets ever couple of years, but this year I have a couple ISA brown roosters to breed to my pullets. Going to reverse the the gender thing this time.
I could go on and on (like I haven't already) but thanks for the video.
I want to start breeding and hatching my own chicks, but I don't understand breeds. Can you take an Isa Brown rooster and hen and still get Isa Brown, or would they revert back to what they were originally crossed with? I just want to know when I hat h eggs that I'm getting what I wanted. Is there a book or info on how to get different varieties?
@@frugalmomofmany There are a couple lines of thought. You could still have ISA browns if you put a rooster with hens of the same breeding (genetics), but the problem is that since they are hybrids, you won't have any consistency. i.e. it could be risky. My practice has been to use a different production breed rooster to breed to my ISA hens. Conversely, you could use an ISA rooster to breed hens of a different production breed. I did this for years and my chickens were 127/128ths ISA brown genetically although they looked nothing like hatchery ISA browns. Inbreeding is what you must avoid, so breeding a hatchery rooster to my hens, or one of my roosters to a hatchery flock of hens avoids that. No, I don't know of a book although there may be a magazine article somewhere that might explain the details. This may sound complicated but as you go through it year after year, it makes sense.
Cochins are by far my #1 favorite chicken! You just gotta love everything about them.
I never knew there's so many different breeds of chickens. I knew eggs were brown or white, bit didn't know they could be speckled or blue. When I was a girl my Mom had some large white chickens, some for eggs & some for eating. I made sure I was hard to find when I knew we were having chicken for supper!!! Didn't want to be around the process of yard to table...lol. This is very interesting. May get me some chickens if my son's can help me with fencing & a coup. Love to here them crow & cluck!!! I'm just an animal person, 4 paws, 2 legs, feathers, fur it doesn't matter. Love all of God's creation. Thank you for teaching me new things. Love the videos & devotionals. Bless you Jess & Murray McMurray people!
One reason we love chickens is they are so versatile and they can fit anybody needs!
We are just outside the city centre in Sydney (45 minute walk) and just about every 3rd house has a few hens. We’ve been here 13 years and have had 2 lots of ISA browns, but this time we are doing 2 ISA and 2 Australorps. The Australorps (cross btwn Orpington and few other breeds) are the sweetest hens to have around children and are also great layers. Bonus is that they are very well adapted to the Australian heat and cold extremes.
Great informational video - just wish you would have put a pic up of each of the chickens as you had mentioned them.😕🐓🐔🐥🐣
Just ordered my catalog…. Can’t wait til it gets here! 👍😃
I love what you do Jess. You put everything out there for everyone. If this was Justin's video, it would be behind a paywall.
I recently agreed to buy 6 chickens, ended up with 27. Love them all. The Orpington loves to sit on my lap, Barred Rocks are friendly, Wyandottes go back and forth. Rhode Island and New Hampshires coming around more and more. Cochins are super friendly and curious. The only ones stand offish are the Easter Eggers, they don't want me to handle them.
I am so jealous. I ordered chick's from here as a kid. Best hatchery hands down!
Yay! Got a catalog!
My family has been getting chicks from you'al for three generations soon to be four
This was the best video on chickens that I have seen. It has been a few years since I had chickens but hopefully soon I will have my flock again and enjoying them every day! Thanks and keep up the great work!
We're not ready for chickens yet but listening to this makes me so excited, thanks for all the great info!
This interview was so informative and fascinating....enjoyed every moment of it. Thank you for sharing!
LOVED, LOVED your Murray McMurray Videos. That was a real treat to watch and learn from.
Love it! Thank you Tom, thank you Jess.
Thank you so much for posting this! I sent the video to My folks they are fixing to get chickens! Love it! Can't wait to see you all at the Shindig!!!
It has been my dream to have chickens.
I live in NYC but I’ll have to speak to my landlord for permission !
Plus I have 5 cats
Anyone else has cats and chickens? Can they get along?
Thanks in advance for any help on this !
Fantastic video!! Thank you so much!
I order my free catalog yesterday!
Thank you Tom !
And thank you Jess!!!!!
With love from NYC
Love the video. If you ever get hens that are not broody, muscovy ducks are a good addition that will sit on the eggs, if you want baby chicks.
I loved this video! I know it's a couple of years old but, I learned so much! I'm just now planning on getting a few chickens and when I saw you had this video I knew I'd get good info! I've also requested one of the McMurray catalogs! Thank you, Jess, for all you do and all the information you share! God bless you!
This is the best video you have ever done!!! Thanks so much
So much good information! Thanks Jess!!! I'm going to listen to this one several times over.
Ordered my Catalog! Thank you Jess! I have learned so much from you! You are a True Blessing ♥️🥰
Awesome name - my father's name was Murray. Excellent farmer. Passed in 2009 - 86 yrs old.
Great video! The whole pouring over the catalog and memorizing everything is where I’m at right now. Can’t wait to move and get chickens.
I need some backyard chickens in my life ✊🏾
G Michel, Jr. DO IT 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔
I have ordered from Murray McMurray for many years and I am am always pleased with the chicks I receive. I strongly recommend Murray M.
Dive in!
I looked at that page with all the egg shades an definitely need a couple more
Thank you so much for this lot of info, mom raised chickens some 40yrs ago 😅, now we’re about to get our little flock delivered and I want to learn as much as possible. I just ordered my Mc Murray’s catalog from the link below(thanks for that as well ) excited to keep on learning. Keep up the good work.❤
Jess, Thank you sooo much for doing this video! It was a big help. And thank you Tom for letting Jess tap into your walking database! Lol!
Tome & his family have done an excellent work as they have maintained more than 30 breeds for more than 100 years #❤️❤️👍
So informative! We are just getting started this spring with our homesteading journey, so this is invaluable information! Thanks!
This video is awesome! Thank you both so much.
Excellent info, thank you both!
A truly fantastic video. It was so informative. Love videos like this, where you come away with knowledge.
One of my absolute favorite videos!
We are saving up to buy a small farm in a couple of years and I am super excited to have chickens. I’m really happy to see this video, because I really had no idea which breeds I should buy.
When I was growing up we lived on like half an acre and I was able to have chickens ❤and we had a mix out there we had some americanas which I Loved! And some road islands reds and some barred rock ,we even had a few white leghorns but one of my favorites was a Bantam silkie and they had those feathers on the legs and my little black hen from those Bantam silkies was a real good sitter she was a great brooder.
Hi Jess, thanks for this video. I caved to my long time desire to have a few chicken today, it was totally unexpected. I had gone to purchase a flower pot and asparagus starts (which by the way I didn’t get)😳 instead I found myself standing over baby chicks and ducklings. I have to say that when I decided on the spur of the moment to make the leap to bring a “few” chicks home and maybe a duckling all because I fell in LOVE with two americanas the next thing I knew I brought home those two plus 2 cuckoo Marans , 3 golden comets , 2 silver laced , 2 golden laced polish, and 3 pekin ducks!! even though I don’t have a space prepared outside for them I’m obsessed with them and want to go back and buy the entire flock of Americanas.!!! I think I already need an intervention😳
We just got chicks for the first time! I’m so excited to learn 💜
Almost 250k!! Loving these videos about the hatchery !
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this video.
I've been a chicken man all my life and your trip was very educational and fun to watch. It's not hard to tell your a chicken lover to.. you done a very good job and for that advertising videos I hope you get your chickens Free.. god bless you and your family
Nice to see someone from my city of birth. So glad you visited...and were impressed with the rich Iowa soil!
I love this mans chicken passion. 😁
I have two americaunas, one lays a blue egg and when you crack it open it is bluer on the inside than it is on the outside, but the other lays a lighter blue/green egg and the inside of the egg is white
I ordered my 10 chicks yesterday and they will be mailed in May. I can hardly wait!!!! I still live in the city, but at least I can have a small flock. God Bless! Carmen
I have been in love with buff and lavender orpingtons for a few years now 😍!!!!!
Thank you both, beginning my own first flock soon.
This is a really great video, with great information! Thanks for sharing this.
awesome video, I've had chickens for 3 years now and getting more and more addicted.
Very informative videos. Thanks for sharing!
This was awesome information thank you. I love your videos.
Lord willing, I get my 25 baby chicks from Abendroth's Hatchery tomorrow! 15 Gold Stars, 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes, 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes, 2 Easter Eggers , 2 Salmon Faverolles, and 2 Speckled Sussex.
Oh my goodness!! I loved this so much!
My 11 year old son made a list after looking through the Murray McMurray Hatchery catalog of the chickens we should get. Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, Black Australorps, Barred Rock and Wyandottes are on our list but before we can get chickens, we need a coop and run. Until my husband's work picks up that's all on hold so I guess God is saying "Wait". I am so impatient lol.
Absolutely love this video. Very educational. Thanks for the great information.
Today is now march 31...I would think twice about going to England any time soon. Good luck and many thanks. Stay home!💕
A Wonderful conversation, subject. Terrific information
Enjoyed every minute!
Very informational video!!! Thank you Jess & Tom...(oh, and Miah for making it possible for Jess to go visit!)
Ok this is the best information I have found on the best chickens for me personally thank you Roots And refuge and thank you Murray McMurray.
Thank you for the tour of Murray McMurray. I look forward to ordering new chicks next year.
Thanks for the catalog link got it ordered
Totally agree with the Americauna chickens...I got 3 of them all different colors so beautiful and beautiful eggs! I Will always have them in my yard.
Being in the UK I can't get Murray McMurray chicks, however the information about chickens in this video is AWESOME!! chicken breeds are the same whatever country you're in,so this video is great! Thank you Jess & Tom!
Great information thanks Jess😁
Tom seems like a really cool person! I would enjoy knowing him.
Same! I could talk chickens for hours with people like him lol
I now want some chickens!!! Thank you so much for sharing this informative video with us.
What a great video! So informative! I got do much out of it. Hopefully soon I’ll be able to start my flock. Thank you.
Super helpful video. Wanted to start a flock this year but had some specific wants. This helped me narrow down my search. Just ordered 15 chicks from them.
I ordered a catalog!! I don’t even have chickens, but would love to. I had chickens when I lived in Idaho years ago. In Kansas now.
I love this video!!!!!
This is coming at the perfect time!
I love your video! So informative 🥰🫶🐣❣️
"Chicken TV" 😆 love it!
Thanks So Much For All This 🐔Chicken🐓 Information 👍🏻😁
It's Much Appreciated!
Much❤Love & 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻God Bless
Many Thanks Jess & To The McMurray Chicken Family Farm👍🏻😁👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I am loving this!! Mega chicken nerd here! I spend hours looking at catalogs. :D
This was so informative thank you
Great job
Awesome amazing and beautiful thank you so much for sharing your wonderful visit with mc Murry hatchery 🥰 I loved it 🥰🥰🥰 Iam crossing my fingers that they will send me a catalog in Australia, I know I won’t be able too order from them but it’s such an amazing resource to have. I’ve just got my first chicks that are lavender astrolorps and a black too I super excited to see their eggs 😁
Love your chicken info. Was very informative. Would love to have extended info sessions on more animals & even gardening.
Great interview!🐔🐓🐣🐤🐥❤🙏
Thanks for sharing,