Here in the rolling hills of central Iowa, feathers are flying in a high-stakes dispute involving giant Northwest Airlines, the U.S. Postal Service and the not-at-all-giant Murray McMurray Hatchery.

FROM THE DELAWARE TO AMBER STAR. IF YOU’RE LOOKING TO TAKE ON CHICKENS, THIS IS AN AND KONA AND IT’S PRETTY RARE. MARY MCMURRY HATCHERY IN WEBSTER CITY PROBABLY HAS WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR. WE HAVE ...

It's a scramble to fill orders at Murray McMurray Hatchery in Webster City, Iowa, where chicks are in high demand from customers who want egg-laying hens. Elaine Quijano has more. 28,820 people played ...

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa - Nothing heralds spring on the farm as the sound of baby chicks does. The peeping chorus at Murray McMurray Hatchery is amplified by the thousands. Each Friday is a red letter day.

Chicks in a Murray McMurray Hatchery shipping box. The weeks leading up to Easter are typically busy for chicken hatcheries, but demand for chicks this spring has far exceeded normal volumes.

When Sheila and David Hendrickson ordered a few dozen chicks through a mail-order poultry catalog, they weren't sure what to expect. They prepared their backyard chicken coop, and knew the date the ...

Portrait of Plymouth Rock Chicken (Barred Rock hen) on the farm. Photography of nature and wildlife. In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends podcasts: Tom Watkins from Murray McMurray ...

A shipment of day-old baby chicks from Murray McMurray Hatchery, one of the nation's oldest and largest hatcheries in Webster City, Iowa. EUGENE, Ore. — The weeks leading up to Easter are always the ...