Calling Col. Sanders
You want freerange chickens? Come to Kauai.
Legal or not, cockfighting and gambling have been favorite pastimes in Hawaii for many decades. So chicken breeders are everywhere. But two hurricanes in the 1980s and 1990s wrecked many of the outdoor cages, releasing the chickens to live wild and breed. On Kauai, there are few natural predators, and the place is overrun. Not as many on Oahu, where mongoose probably eat a lot of their eggs.
Calling Col. Sanders
You want freerange chickens? Come to Kauai.
Legal or not, cockfighting and gambling have been favorite pastimes in Hawaii for many decades. So chicken breeders are everywhere. But two hurricanes in the 1980s and 1990s wrecked many of the outdoor cages, releasing the chickens to live wild and breed. On Kauai, there are few natural predators, and the place is overrun. Not as many on Oahu, where mongoose probably eat a lot of their eggs.