Breeding Your Own Meat Birds, Hatcheries & Avian Flu with Tom McMurray

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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If you're looking to raise meat chickens, the next natural step for us modern-day Pioneers is to consider breeding chickens for a sustainable flock. Join me for this podcast with Tom McMurray from Murray McMurray Hatchery to learn what it takes to successfully breed chickens, as well as tips and tricks if you're considering this option, and how the Avian Flu might effect you. For all of the show notes and links, visit https://melissaknorris.com/347.

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
0:16.2	sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is
0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:25.2	Hey there pioneers! Welcome to episode number 347.
1:32.4	Today's episode we are going to talk about self-sufficiency with chickens including
1:40.3	what it would take to breed your own Cornish-crossed meat bird breeds.
1:47.0	How hatcheries work, the impact of the bird flu or the avian flu on chickens and what that could look like or mean long term for us,
2:00.0	as well as other breeding aspects of heritage birds
2:05.6	versus the Cornish Cross hybrids that were used to
2:09.2	and all kinds of chicken talk today on the podcast. I am very excited not only do I have an
2:19.1	incredible guest on but this podcast episode is sponsored as well by Mick Murray Hatchery.
2:28.8	Mick Murray Hatchery is a hatchery that I have used, oh goodness, way before they were ever a sponsor of the
2:35.4	pioneering Today podcast.
2:37.8	And I initially tried them after I was frustrated with some other hatchery's that I had used and had horrible, horrible mortality rates.
2:47.2	I'm talking of we got in 45 meat birds and lost over half of them the first day of arrival.
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