1957
John Melhorn starts selling chicks for DeKalb
1957
Formation of crews
1958
Melhorn builds pullet house in Mount Joy
1965
Melhorn purchases first truck for poultry hauling
1984
Melhorn establishes base on Main Street
2008
Astin Melhorn joins as Chief Operations Officer
2012
We began marketing spent fowl
2015
Astin Melhorn purchases the company
2019
Formation of JMW Poultry Solutions
2019
Purchase of MainJoy Unlimited
2021
Great Plains creation
2021
Paragon Poultry Management Group Establishment
2025
Breaking Ground for New Melhorn Ohio Site












Bird Handling Crew Service in the
Mid-Western United States
Pullet and Fowl Transportation Services in
the North Eastern United States









