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Backyard Chicken Movement / Education
6:35 am
Wed June 1, 2011

Backyard chicken movement moves to schoolyard

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Kaila Nong is among three chicken stewards who take care of the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District's 16 chickens.
Credit (Maria Altman/St. Louis Public Radio)
Ten Maplewood Richmond Heights students, ranging from seventh grade to seniors, wrote Chickenology: The Art & Science of Keeping Chickens.
Credit (Maria Altman/St. Louis Public Radio)
The Maplewood Richmond Heights School District’s chicken coop is just one of the many food sustainability projects going on in the school system.
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Eighth-grader Noah Snyder rounds up the chickens in the school’s orchard. The chickens only get access to the grassy area when it’s warm and when there’s someone to watch out for predators.
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The chickens have access to an outdoor chicken run that protects them from predators like hawks.
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Some of the chickens are enclosed because they “bully” other chickens by pecking them.
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Chickens lay eggs in their nesting boxes. They have a separate place to sleep called a roost.
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The chickens’ breed and names are displayed outside the coop.
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Chickenologists: Eighth-grader Janai Robinson,  Junior Kaila Nong, and Eighth-grader Noah Snyder.
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Raising chickens has become a bit of a trend in urban and suburban areas.

But one St. Louis area school is embracing the so-called backyard chicken movement as a teaching tool.

The Maplewood Richmond Heights School District has 16 chickens, and the group of students who care for them has now written a guide to help others raise hens.

They’ll be signing "Chickenology: The Art & Science of Keeping Chickens" at 2 p.m. Sunday at Left Bank Books’ Downtown.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Maria Altman met the school’s “chickenologists” just before the school year draws to a close Thursday.

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