Pearl Perdue kept a small flock of chickens while her husband Arthur saved enough to start his own poultry business.

Arthur W. Perdue founds a backyard table egg business at his home in Salisbury, MD., in 1920, the same year his son, Frank, was born. Five years later, he builds the company's first hatchery, and begins selling layer chicks to farmers instead of table eggs. Frank grows up learning to tend to the chickens.

Today, the PERDUE® brand is synonymous with quality around the world and we're still family-owned.

Explore our history across eight decades and three generations.