Today Home to Roost, LLC, assisted the Cook County Sheriff’s Office with moving 30 hens into the Cook County Jail. Home to Roost consulted with the Sheriff’s Office to assist in selecting birds, designing a coop, and creating a chicken-keeping program for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. The lovely chickens and supplies were supplied by Belmont Feed and Seed.
The goals of the program are
- Create marketable products (eggs, coops) for CCSO;
- Provide inmates with marketable skills/experience (animal husbandry, carpentry, management);
- Provide inmates with discipline, respect for nature;
- Implement a “green,” ecofriendly program at CCSO; and
- Integrate with existing gardening program.
Home to Roost is very happy to participate in this project!
Home to Roost 
Posted by Lidia on July 24, 2013 at 7:44 am
Looking good. The hens will be happy there. Thank you, Jen for making this possible.
Posted by chickenwoman on July 24, 2013 at 8:49 am
Thanks, Lidia, and thanks for providing such lovely birds. They were well cared for! Scott remarked a number of times at how beautiful they were.
Posted by Beverly on July 24, 2013 at 8:04 am
Wow Jen!!! We are so proud of you; what a great job. You just seem to excel in everything that you do. I can just see Pappy with a great big smile on his face and I am sure that he is busting his buttons. The men seem happy in the pictures also. What a bunch of lucky chickens.
Posted by Sherri on July 24, 2013 at 9:01 am
Amazing. Do you have any details about this project? It would be nice to let people know WHY the sherriff’s department has a chicken coop.
Posted by chickenwoman on July 24, 2013 at 9:13 am
yes – will add!
Posted by Jean on July 24, 2013 at 9:17 am
Looking good. Had a tour of the county jail garden a few years ago… this will be a great addition! Nobody has made a joke about “jail birds” yet?
Posted by chickenwoman on July 24, 2013 at 9:24 am
LOL! Thanks! I have, but rather under my breath…
Posted by heavenandearthgrowers on July 24, 2013 at 10:14 am
Have I told you lately that you totally rock! What a great project.
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Posted by Dave on July 24, 2013 at 10:44 am
This is awesome!