Article: CHICKEN RANCHING BRINGS FRIENDS TOGETHER

Yes, these two ladies really are operating chicken ranches with 200 chicks. Angie LeNoir and her good friend Patricia Whitt have a business selling dressed, pasture-raised chickens.

LeNoir is married to the camp manager of Camp Bethel and they live in a two-story brick home near the camp with their children just off Bethel Road. She has 100 chicks in a movable chicken pen and in a shed by her garden.

Over in Lithia on Hodges Road, Patricia Whitt has another 100 chicks. They order the chicks from Mount Healthy Hatcheries in Ohio.

Both women say their husbands are very supportive of their enterprise.

"When the chicks arrive, we get a call early in the morning from the Troutville Post Office ...

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