Ann Zimmerman of the Wall Street Journal agrees to follow up story…
On Friday, Apr 3, 2009 I received a response from Ann Zimmerman of the Wall Street Journal regarding my request for a follow up story on Hawaii’s feral chicken problems (see link to story in the previous post). My question to her went something like this; If and when the state or county does take reasonable action to counter the obvious feral critter problem on Kauai and other islands, will you request a follow up story at some point down the road? Verbatim she responded, “You betcha!!! I will absolutely do a follow up!!!!” Well there we have it Hawaii, straight from the source at the Wall Street Journal.
If the State or County does something about the issue on our islands, we can then use it in a positive manor for Hawaii. As many already know, I and many others have agreed to offer our time to help the state or county help each community in figuring out how to best counter the problem. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I’m all about exploring what some of them might be. First off, each county needs a feral bird hot line that does not delegate the load onto the humane society. The humane society needs to be working on what they do best, not running around answering loose chicken calls. Second, each county needs a system for countering the issue. Whatever it may be, people at least deserve to know something is in place and working on the problem, right?
Enjoy your day in paradise!
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I live in Holualoa on the Big Island and haven’t slept more then an hour at a time in months. New neighbor thought it would be great to have chickens and has an open coup up next to my place. Not near theirs of course. Now all of the wild clans are here too. They roost in the trees at night. I’ve been lucky to grab a few right out of the trees at night. I take them down to an area we call the end of the world in Kona. Can’t keep up. New ones show up daily. Thanks for making this better known! Too bad there weren’t traps for the morons blaring the loud car stereos at night
I live in Pikoiloa, Kaneohe, Oahu where there are way too many chickens and roosters! They keep us up at all hours, they live under our house, and they are always in our yard. New chicks seem to be born every couple of weeks which means only one thing: more future blood curdling screaming roosters! One of my neighbors has a low-tech chicken trap and has caught a few of them – another neighbor is currently installing foundation screening to keep the chickens from breeding under their house. My husband and I have decided to get serious and buy one of these traps to see if we can decrease the population. If the trap works well, we’ll share it with our neighbors! Wish us luck!
Just wanted to say that I read your blog quite frequently and I’m always amazed at some of the stuff people post here. But keep up the good work, it’s always interesting.
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