How bad can it get?
I dont’ like to focus on negatives, but I was reminded this morning of how bad our wild rooster and chicken problem could get. I will never forget this place my friends and I dubbed “Rooster Island”. I went with a group of about 20 friends to Indonessia for 30 days in 2001. Our home base was Kuta Beach on the island of Bali where we carried out various community outreach programs , surfed, and had a great time for roughly the first week and a half of our trip. After that, half of our group headed to the docks at Sanaur to catch the hour long Ferry to a place called Nusa Lembongan. We waited and waited for our Ferry and finally it came. So we all piled on this so called “Ferry” which looked more like a makeshift power fishing boat and crossed the channel. Our destination at Nusa Lembongan was absolutely beautiful, truly a ultra tropical destination with perfect waves and the whole nine yards. Kind of like Kauai right? Ya, actually Kauai is reminding me more and more of that place everyday. The wild rooster problem on Nusa Lembongan was mind boggeling. We kept asking ourselves, how do people lieve here? Our group was in disbelief at this totally off the rocker rooster infestation. We stayed in these beach house huts a few thousand feet from the water and all you caould hear was rooster 24 hours a day. walk down stairs to the ground floor and you’ve got mamma chicken with 10 chickies to your left, mother hen with 20 chickies on your right, and like literally 20 or 30 bad ass roosters all around them trying to be the baddest. It was like a nut house, their numbers were incredible. There must have been 10x more roosters than even the resteraunt up a Kokee on Kauai has during tourist feeding frenzies! So what’s my point you might ask? Simple, Kauai could eventually get this bad. Nothing is controling Kauai’s wild chicken problem and it would be a shame for that to continue. Write your counsel memeber an email and let them know you think this issue is important.
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I agree. The chickens and roosters in Hawaii are a problem!. They run wild, and they are loud! The noise is excruciating, more like a dying screeching sound than a crow, and they look unhealthy! I wouldn’t eat one even teri-glazed! They poop all over my patio and eat all of my cat’s food. Now they are costing me money?!!! I don’ think so, enough is enough!!!
Well folks, I’m here to tell you it can be done, elimination of roosters that is, because I did it. There were about 50 chickens across the road from me, and about 15 big healthy roosters keeping them “busy.” Now there are no roosters! Ahh, now just the sound of birds up in the Ohi’a. It took some critical thinking to out smart the wise old males, and patience. They wouldn’t get near the trigger in the trap so I laid some sticks on the trigger out to the door at different angles and covered them with ginger leaves, then sprinkled the bait on the leaves and out the door. It works!
Noise pollution is a serious health issue. We go after coqui one by one up here but roosters are way more of a problem.
Good to hear of your success! Great ideas
Catching is not our problem, it is what do you do with them once the are caught. We have a lot next to us that is wooded and full of chickens, we can’t get the owner to deal with the issue. Any suggestions?