How to catch a chicken
Once you have purchased a trap from www.RoosterTraps.com, the process of catching the critters is pretty easy! As much as you want to put your new trap out the second you arrive at your house, holding out for a day or two will prove best. Find a place where you will most likely be leaving your trap when you set it. Leave the trap there and bait the surrounding areas for the first day or so. Let the Roosters and chickens get used to the new object in the area. These guys are smarter than you think, so you need all the tricks you can think of. When you have decided to set your trap for your big catch, make sure you use the same food (cat food, corn or nuts works great) as you did to bait the day before. When baiting your trap, you don’t want to over bait the surrounding areas. Drop a few pieces of food here and there creating a trail straight to the door of the trap leading to the platform in the rear of the trap. You will most lilkely be using your trap throughout the year as newbies stroll through the areas looking for someone to bother. To make placing the bait under the platform easy, take a stick about 3 feet long and tie or tape a spoon to the end of it. Swing the door open to the top of the trap and set the trigger that will hold the door up while also lifting up on the platform. Fill the spoon with your bait and poor it over the center of the platform. The bait should trickle though the wire mesh and set on the ground. You now have a trap ready to catch a rooster! Please contact your humane society for relocation and handling advice.
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I am curious about what happens to these animals after they have been trapped? Since the Humane Society apparently no longer relocates them – it sounds as if they are just euthanized there.
Do people relocate them? What actually happens to the animal after it is trapped?
I’d appreciate knowing this very much.
I just asked the Kauai Humane Society this very question about an hour ago. It wasn’t Dr. Becky that answered the question, but the lady at the front desk seemed to have their answer. She said that most of the time the chickens are euthanized when brought in. After that she continued on to say that the Kauai Humane Society keeps a list of names of people who will take the chickens, and that euthanizing the chickens at home was also an option. Hope this helps!
chicken is good eatin. I caught one last year and ate it. Got to use the slow cooker or stew because they get tough.
I intend to kill at least one of them to see what its like. I eat a lot of chicken and I feel like I should know how it feels to kill one. if its fun, maybe i’ll kill the rest. Otherwise there is this farm here on Oahu contracted to take the birds if they are on private property. Oh yeah, and I’m going to try to get them drunk. I’ve soaked rice in vodka over night and now i’m going to go feed it to them until they fall over. Then i’ll just snatch em up. I’ll let you know how it goes. Maybe you don’t need rooster traps or whatever. Wish me luck!!!
Hey Philip, how did the rice and vodka work out?
I’m going to Hawaii in april and I figure I’ll catch a few wild chickens around the North shore using a coat hanger with a hook curled on the end to snag their legs.
I’m catch and release since I don’t have time to clean and cook ‘em. Unless someone wants it for supper!
Hey maybe this’ll be the new tourist sport – Wild chicken hunting!