The Associated Press reported that in the past two months, the city and County of Honolulu set traps in five areas and have caught just 67 chickens, costing $7,000. That amounts to $104 per bird. The Associated Press says that catching chickens is costly because the traps are being vandalized and stolen, though it’s unclear who’s damaging them and why. Now, city officials are trying to address the public’s desperate pleas for help while figuring out a cost-effective solution.
-Daniel
Pellet rifle and a bounty per chicken. Problem solved.
ReplyDeleteHave the hunters send the heads in to claim the bounty and they can keep the rest of the bird for food.
DeletePut a bounty on the chickens. Pellet guns only. $10.00 per bird should get people interested enough to get up off the couch. Make a decent day's wage and help eradicate a pest problem. Also, the hunters would have the option of keeping the chicken for food.
ReplyDeleteKeeping the chickens around for food is why the traps get vandalized/stolen.
DeleteI had to laugh , whining about having to dodge ferial chickens in the road ? Run the bastard over ! one less pest. Trying to trap them ? LOL doesn't anyone there have a .22 ?
ReplyDeleteDemocrat Paradise does not allow the commoners to have weapons of war.
DeleteUh, Hawaiian Chicken, anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
ReplyDeleteI mean, seriously? With food prices the way they are, I'd love me some feral chickens. I got a .22 caliber air rifle and plenty of time. Geez. City folk.
Some Southerners with .22 rifles would solve this pretty quickly.
ReplyDeleteThat is so fuckin stupid. Typical Hawaii democratic approach. Get some state trucks, put cages on the back and tell people where the trucks will be and they will be giving five bucks a bird. I lived on Maui for years. You could eat at a outdoor place and pick up two or three while sitting at your table. Not that you would want to while eating I'm just explaining how many there are. They are under your table your chair etc. Anyway, my approach the problem would be resolved within a week or even days. Disposal, kill em and burn em at the landfill.
ReplyDeleteIs there some reason they wouldn't be edible? [rocketride]
DeleteSuch an easy problem to solve. Church picnics until the problem goes away.
ReplyDeleteSet a bounty of $10/bird, and I'm gonna start breeding them like crazy. Get a stock of ~100 laying hens. After you have hens producing batches of chicks, wait until they get their feathers in and start popping the offspring with a pellet gun. $10/bird * ~3,200 birds per year times $10/bird is $32,000/year. Subtract a bit for feed and you've got a shitty welfare program that makes you work doing something useless for money the government spends foolishly by stealing from you and I.
ReplyDeleteThat's literally what happened in India. Cobra overpopulation problem "solved" by offering bounties, leading to snake breeding. Bounties were discontinued, leaving a worse problems than before.
DeleteJust let the economy keep going the way it is. Everything in Hawaii is expensive, and chicken is no exception. Right now, chicken costs about $6 a pound. Once the cost of chicken in the grocery store hits a sufficiently high price, or once food becomes scarce, the chickens will disappear without explanation.
ReplyDeleteI predict that will start happening at around $12 a pound. Once we see $20 a pound, chickens in Hawaii will virtually disappear.
I reckon they aren't very hungry out there in Hawaii. And I wonder if Hawaiian chicken has pine apple on it.
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Just tell Hawaiian rednecks that chicken tastes like rattlesnake.
ReplyDeleteSounds like it's time to introduce coyotes into Hawaii's ecosystem.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was stationed out there the North Shore was full of feral cats, but not many chickens. I'd take the chickens over multiple cats-in-heat yelling all night every time.
ReplyDeleteThem 7XL poi-eaters can go a long time without busting a sweat chasing a chicken...
Time fo some Huli Huli chicken, chicken long rice, fried chicken, shoyu chicken, roast chicken, 🤤
ReplyDeleteWith the coming food crisis those chickens will begin to disappear soon enough...heh heh
ReplyDelete50.000 lmao The easiest way to cull chickens is with a machete. Just stroll through gentle- like, and when you get close enough, flick his head off. The others won't even know it was you.
ReplyDeleteI recall a rooster around the annex at MCBH, didn't bother anyone TMK but they aren't exactly sanitary to have around. Nasty animals. Doesn't freeze or get cold in Hawaii so everything from tomatoes to chickens are wild.
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get rid of the mongooses they `brought to Hawaii to get of snakes and bring in some of those Florida Pythron Florida can't get rid of. Or tell them that SPAM is made with chicken not pork.
ReplyDeleteThe mongoose was shipped in to get rid of the rats.
DeleteI suspect Fowl Play.......I'll see myself out. Good night.
ReplyDeleteThey're lucky they aren't Emu's. Australia can now hold its head a little higher (google Emu War).
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