Carol, 47, and Scott, 49, became interested in raising chickens after reading the article “City Chicks” in Natural Home and Garden magazine in 2006. Both are avid outdoors people — gardening, sailing, running, beekeeping and biking — so the chickens fit right into their lifestyle, especially their naturalistic-planted yard. She’s a former occupational therapist with public schools, as well as a master gardener in York County; he’s an engineering technician at NASA Langley Research Center.
He said he took a look in the kitchen and saw that the county was feeding inmates brand-name cereal, sausages and pancakes with maple syrup, and all the coffee they could drink. He made some quick changes — no coffee, no red meat, generic cereal, one hot meal a day, at noon.
“The first year, they didn’t know what they were doing. They had everything coming at us at one time,” she said. “Now it comes in cycles. That helps out, but the first year killed us.”
Ms. Rapp said the jail’s garden produced so many tomatoes the first year that her staff made and froze tomato sauce. They had “terrific” raspberries this year that were mixed with other fruit for fruit salad.
During the May 26 incident, police believed Melaku smashed the windows of 27 cars. He faces two counts of grand larceny — and could spend a potential 20 years in prison, likely to shorten significantly as part of a plea deal. Additional similar charges were dropped.
The Bartrams started with four day-old chicks through a mail-order hatchery; the minimum order was 25 so they shared the purchase with other hen enthusiasts. Their original four included two Barred Plymouth Rocks called Violet and Chicory, a Buff Orpington named Poppy and a Rhode Island Red named Iris.
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