Have you seen what hens do to their chicks? They are much less gentle, and that’s nature, how god made them. Tossing them 4 or 5 inches into a tub is childsplay compared to what their mothers and sibling do. I’m sure they are doing more than the minimum requirements as well. This place looks much more well run than other hatcheries.
@@fngaming5064 humans have the ability to have compassion. If this hatchery is incrementally better than others, then humans in general can do better. Tossing them doesn't save this guy any time. It just proves he's been doing it too long. Plus, a lot of these birds go to humane hobby farms. Tossing chicks just isn't something they want to explain to buyers. "Hens and other hatcheries treat chicks worse " isn't something they can get behind.
Yes that was awful. The 1st sexer threw the bird....maybe by a wing? Pressing tiny necks to needles. Horrible. Inhumane. Traded good quality care of Living Animals for quantity. All about that $$. Hatched 23,000 birds....say 3,000 die. 20,000 at $5 a pop (close enough). Money matters and living babies don't. But hey, it's better than the abortion industry
I think saying that the sexer throws them is underselling how hard he's throwing. The sexer is litterally YEETING these little chicks into a box that looks like an arms reach away where he can just drop them atleast into the container instead of YEET.
It’s part of it as an 11 year old kid that raises chickens I know what’s right and what’s wrong so I’m sure a full on business knows there rights from wrongs.
No, i am a tiny miffed as well, but you also clearly don't know enough about chickens either. I do my research and i have actually kept chickens once. There are tons of factors in which chicks can and will get pecked to death by either their mother, the other chicks or more commonly other chickens in the yard. And not all chickens are the motherly creatures you believe, there are chickens who are more motherly than others known as broody hens, and some can go broody but again more so than others. Some not even at all which is why some may need to get more commonly broody hens like silkies. Please, do your research before you try to 'learn someone a thing'
You should see what mama hens do to their chicks! I swear, my chicks should all be shredded and dead by the way she managed to toss them about while scratching for food.
I’ve ordered three batches of chicks from them and the chicks always arrive alert and healthy. All the way to Alaska! Farming can seem like harsh business at times but you can bet no one loves their animals like a farmer, or hatchery, ranch, etc. (minus “big business” meat suppliers, they have no regard for life.)
I’ve ordered three batches of chicks from them and the chicks always arrive alert and healthy. All the way to Alaska! Farming can seem like harsh business at times but you can bet no one loves their animals like a farmer, or hatchery, ranch, etc. (minus “big business” meat suppliers, they have no regard for life.)
LOL.. Yup.. It's my version of the old Sears Xmas Wish Book! One year we ordered 3 Bronze Medallion Turkeys... 2 hens & a Tom. They were magnificent... like a Classic Thanksgiving card Turkey! I had no problem eating the Tom as he got SO big and aggressive... next time I would eat him a little sooner! At least he had a great 5+ warm months wandering around in the yard. Best Turkey we EVER ate.
@@whitehouseonthehill I dream every fall waiting for the next years online ordering to start which just happened. Sometimes I dream too big and have too many chickens come spring lol
Thank you to the Murray McMurray Hatchery for letting you come in and film and get a tour like that. I feel like I’ve been on a fascinating field trip. And the little chicks are so cute! I live in California. Here a lot of people have backyard coops and keep just a few hens for fresh eggs. It’s funny to be out in my backyard gardening and I can hear rooster cockadoodling! I should be out on a farm! And people LOVE there chickens and the chickens love them. So cute! Thanks again!! P.S. does the guy vaccinating the babies ever accidentally vaccinate himself? He’s going so fast!!
I would have loved this tour to include where they keep the mamas before they collect the eggs....that means just as much to me as the treatment of the chicks.
@@noelhenderson8095 😢 that is a horrible thought. But..wondering...What would you suggest happens to allllllllll these rooster babies? Should the industry be banned because there are to many roosters born to even consider using. What are your suggestions?
When my chickens have babies and they get all fluffy, I sit on the sofa with as many as i can on me lol it feels like a lot of cotton candy puffs walking all over me and they love to cuddle on my chest.😁🐣🐤🐤
Lots of people complain about hatcheries and how their crowded but the aspect is that they need lots to not only keep each other company but to also keep eachother warm due to their being no hens to look after them I personally think that hatcheries are a great thing for getting lots of chicks as veterans of a ranch and a select few to start off with as a rookie
I own a huge coop in a big field down south of Britain. My son and me have been looking after them for a while but with the season getting unpredictable we are trying to get their bigger coops finished and jeep them nice and warm so they can lay and hatch their eggs
@Samy Link18 I have seen hatcheries where things were bad. This is a clean reasonably gentle way to hatch chickens. After being a chicken person for many decades I believe Murray McMurray Hatchery is one of the better hatcheries around. They seem to have closer to the standard birds, healthy chicks, and overall better satisfaction reports from the people who order from them.
This was disturbing. They drag baby chickens across a needle like I scan my groceries! And throw them in the box like throwing groceries in the bag! Their adorable babies! It seemed so.... cold. I definitely like how you raise and care for your birds.
This is the only hatchery I have bought from for the past 16 years. I only had one bad experience, this spring I ordered 23 layer pullets and 2 cockerels, more than half of them ended up being the wrong sex. Luckily, I also got 50 meat birds with that order and was prepared to butcher birds. Also, as she said in the video, they have 90% sexing so I was refunded. I am planning to order more peachicks and some heritage poults next spring.
Working for USPS in a busy rural post office, I see chicks shipped every year. When I wanted to start my own flock I chose Murray McMurray because I noticed thiers always arrived in the best condition. Love them!
I ordered from a lot of hatcheries and M M Hatchery had the best. There is a big one in Texas that you may order white chicks and get black or red chicks. I raised and hatched chicks to sell at flea markets, auctions, and to neighbors. I vaccinated every chick for Pox and Myrecks (spelled wrong) but some places do not. I always got my brood stock as chicks from M M Hatchery or good friends. This was just a hobby to me but I did make a little money. If my health had not gotten so bad and I am crippled I would still be raising and hatching chickens. I enjoyed it as long as I could!
I bought my Barred Rocks as pullets. The people who shipped them to me likely bought them here or at a similar plant. It's a rough start, for sure! Remember, a lot of these birds are going to factory farms where they'll be debeaked and suffer a lot. My backyard chickens are lucky, and they seem to know it!
Database programmer here. I think I would rather raise chickens. Or maybe that is just my wife channeling through me. That woman and chickens... and anything else with wings. I get the "Honey, come look at this video!" multiple times a day. 85% birds, 10% baby (insert animals here), 5% flowers/gardening. I got her pajamas with ducks on them. It made her blissfully happy (I may have even heard her softly making quacking noises while wearing them when she thought I wasn't looking). Strange, strange lady. Birds is no longer part of our vocabulary anymore. It is now "birbs" ... honest. Her spirit animal is a sloth. She doesn't like when I tell her that and claims it is most certainly a duck. Unofficially I know I am right. Officially she tells me to shut it. I don't think I am #winning. It all adds up though. It makes her happy, so to endure is divine, or something nifty like that. The things we do for the people we love. Anyway, very informative video. Feel like I learned something. 10/10.
This video is wonderful! We used to buy our chicks from Marray McMurray Hatchery when we had our farm in Centerville, PA (retired from farming now - Jim continues to pastor a church). We raised meat chickens, turkeys and ducks, but all of our chickens came from Murray McMurray. I remember telling Marsha that I'd love to tour their facility some day, but we never had the opportunity to do that. So your video was a blessing. Thanks for sharing your life and small farm experience with us on RU-vid. Blessings - Jim & Marsha - Titusville, PA
I think it's so cool how they do everything property and I'm an animal lover and meat eater and this is how all hatcherys should be run. Top marks to you Murry McMurray
I just found your hatch show, i remember the first time my gram gave me a Murray McMurry hatchery book. I was in heaven, all the chickens they had, it too me a week too figure out what chickens i wanted too raise. I was 7 so it was 1986, and when i got the call that my chick where in. I couldn’t wait too go and get them, you doin this video was great. It let me see how the my chicks were treated. And the start too finish. I really wish i was closer too the hatchery. I would love too closes enough too work there. It would be the best thing every. A major passion of mine. Thank you a keep the videos up
They gonna have you or someone like you there to cuddle and love on each one? I doubt it, then they could not afford it. Plus if they are throwing some away they are sick and will be dead when they arrive. Im sure the birds die quickly once thrown away.
Man that hatchery is probably the one thing I miss most about being a kid. My mother loved to go in person to try and buy some overhatch as we had an acreage with a huge chicken coop and free range chickens every color of the rainbow. 95% of them were from Murray McMurray- (5% from hillbilly days!) I showed so many of them at the fair! I LOVED when the catalogue came in each year and would circle all the new breeds I wanted to try raising and beg mom to get me new show roosters. Always wanted a peafowl but they were just a bit too high priced for the risk of them not making it. (At the time, it was around 315 for 2, in the 90's. Now it's 400-500.) I was so jealous that I couldn't work there and wasn't part of the family, lol. But I did breed several of the chickens and kept the lines going. Glad to see the hatchery is still doing okay. There are a lot of animal welfare comments from the uneducated city folks who don't understand the chickens need a minimum population for desperately needed heat, that many ship to new homes within a few days of hatching and that is just to keep them safe and easy to spot/clean/care for in the crates during first few days of life, and that they don't eat much in the first 3 days due to still eating off their yolk. In fact there is a minimum order amount to keep the chicks warm during shipping. It would be cruel NOT to keep them together, it ups their chances of survival. They also learn from each other, to eat and drink. Sometimes you have to 'show' them how with your fingers if there aren't hens or older chicks around!
For all of you that put hate, chicks are not that fragile!!!!! Yes they shouldn't of been throwing them, but it will not hurt them!!!!! Love you guys thanks for showing us the amazing hatchery
I agree, Just like a young child can fall down without getting hurt. Those chicks were not handled any *Rougher* than the *Ride* *during* *Shipping* Good comment sir.
I'm taking a poultry systems and management class and we took a lab trip to a broiler hatchery for pilgrims brand chickens and I am surprised about how similar this hatchery is to theirs. One of the big differences is obviously Broilers don't live long enough to need the vaccines they were giving in this video but they were getting vaccinated in the egg before they hatched with a software that made sure that the needle was going in at the right spot to hit the safest spot (the same spot that was getting vaccinated in the vid except in the egg). It was interesting to see how it works with exotic breeds and I'm glad they let you videotape in there.
This video makes me completely unsurprised that they arrive with pasty butt....the stress must be awful. These little guys are nothing more than dollar signs. I make furniture and we would never treat the wood like this.... ironically. I could never work here.
Murry McMurray Hatchery is so AWESOME, shipping even to Hawaii and Alaska! I wonder if they ship international orders, gonna check their website out and Uriah sure loves the CUTENESS OVERLOAD! What breed were those chicks he got? White Plymouth Rock? Uprated, thanks Jake and Becky for yet another INTERESTING upload! :)
What was that about? The worker was throwing the chicks around like trash. I was gonna make a $100 order from this Company and now I'm having second thoughts.
As a 4H Poultry Leader this was very an informative ...I can't wait to show my 4H kids this video! bec??They love to order from Murray McMurray as I have since I started in poultry 25 years ago.. great behind the scenes, I love how the Hatchery has kept tradition
I have a barred rock rooster that came about 2 years ago (with an order). Now I understand what likely hurt his foot/toes on one foot/leg. He was probably tossed trough the air and landed wrong on his little baby foot. I guess taking a little extra time to place the baby chicks down rather than drop or toss them is just to much to ask.
I checked out this place online. We were gonna get some but minimum is 15 we have a small cool it would be cruel to put them all in there. Also it's kinda expensive for that many. Honestly I bet it's a great place tho but not the right place to complain hah a. *i just wasted 10 mins writing this help me please*
Murray McMurray Hatchery is responsible for" peeping" my interest as a child to raise chickens. Bud and Tom, it's good to see you guys again. Thank you all for sharing your interview with us on RU-vid you didn't leave anything out. Jake, did you notice how many eggs didn't hatch when they were sorting through? Do you think 90% of the eggs hatched that you could tell on one tray? Just curious.
+Jacky Waldon - this time of year, the egg fertility is down quite a bit. I don't know the exact percentage but they did say they sell 125,000 chicks/week during the peak months and about 20,000-25,000/week this time of year. Only 4 weeks left for this season so they shut it down soon due to the higher rate of infertility of the eggs.
If my dream didn't die I would have a chicken farm and order from Murray McMurray Hatchery. I look at their catalog and dream... that's I all got now :(
I think we need to bring this up but a lot I've run into on the cutting edge of permaculture and market gardening were once programmers. Sci, so forth. I think part of the reason why we run into so many retired programmers or so forth on the cutting edge of farming is they know how to "TEST" if something works or doesn't work. We underestimate the scientific method. You don't need to go to college to be a programmer and you don't need to go to college to learn how to test if something works using the scientific method just get a book and learn. there are exceptions to the programmers and sci folks being on cutting edge of farming... the wonderful folks of polyface.
+vivian williams - thanks! It was pretty loud in the main shipping room, but that pretty much only lasts through Monday while they're all being shipped out.
+Christine Castille - all black chickens: Ayam Cemani, crazy speckles: Speckled Sussex, sharp white to sharp black: Lakenvelder, most beautiful: probably the Lavender Orpington, prettiest egg: French Black Copper Marans
I’ve watched this video THREE times and at not one point did I EVER see anyone throwing any chicks away. So y’all that are saying that happened in this video are crazy. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen in these hatcheries cause I’m sure they do loose a % of chicks, but they did not show that in this vid
Victoria Rossetti I can see where some people may have thought a baby was thrown but I rewinded it and believe it was just the extra eggshells from the chicks. I’ve seen documentaries where some hatcheries do throw some chicks straight in the garbage so when I throughly that’s what I saw I just had to rewind it to make sure I was wrong!!
Chicks certainly do die in nature...my guess is the death rate in a well run, clean hatchery is a bit lower than in nature when you consider the numbers. Anyway.. to stay in business it is certainly ALL about volume and efficiency. I know MurryMcMurry has made having back yard chickens possible for families all over the country. Without them, so many years ago, I know I never would have gotten my awesome happy flock!
@@GeekFreeek Agreed. I do believe some of the huge meat bird hatcheries might do that. Murry McMurry seems like a specialty chick operation aimed at small family farms, a very different set up. Anyway.. once hatched they need to be moved quickly so they can survive shipping. It's amazing how it all actually works! Imho...Rural PO's really deserve a lot of credit handling them so well.
I still don't like the idea of shipping animals. Not hating. If I have to get a breed that is hard to find I'm willing to order online. I'm just happy I can get healthy chicks nearby.
Rob Donaldson even if I knew a lot about chickens I would still have my opinion.. regardless of how many there are nobody should handle an animal like that 🤷🏽♀️ even if it’s going to end up on your plate.. just cruel. Places like this wouldn’t be kept open in the UK
Rob Donaldson so this is how you treat someone who admits they don’t know about this subject? No wonder there are so many trolls and child minded adults. You could have just educated her like a real adult instead of being rude.
People who are like "Omg they Handle the chicks so badly blah blah blah." The chicks are Fine. They all cant be cuddled and you heard the guy, the window for shipping chicks is small, So they have to work fast so they can get the orders out in time.
I have never ordered chicks off line because I’m always scared something might go wrong and they could die in transport, after this I’m much more confident and I really am excited for this easter!
Billy Cruchfield really? Well, that sucks. I have decided I probably won’t anyways because the minimum is 15 and I’m only looking for a few. Thanks for the advice.
