One day in 2009, we decided to head to Kokee with the family for some extra laid back peace and quiet.  We packed a picnic and planned to hang out and rest peacefully in the great wide open space near the Kokee Museum.  While driving up the hill to Kokee State Park, we talked with our kids about how quiet and beautiful it was the last time we went for a few nights visit, it was so much fun. Upon our arrival at the Kokee Lodge parking lot and museum area we were shocked to see the huge increase in chicken and roosters hanging around the park compared to years past.  From the pictures, it’s easy to picture how our picnic went from a peaceful thought to an obnoxiously loud crowing concert.  * BUY TRAPS found on our parent pages – www.RoosterTrap.com & www.ChickenTrap.com. * How about those invasive plant species some people are so worried about?  Every time the feral birds take a dump they are potentially leaving a trail of invasive seeds?  While the State does so much to attract tourist to Kauai and other islands, it is beyond us how they just let these birds breed by the thousands (just add water) and run the havoc they are spreading all over the islands.

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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.