Kauai has an obvious issue with feral chickens. They are everywhere - grocery store parking lots, scenery overlooks, road sides. The roosters are majestic and the hens not so much. Often the hen will have a brood of babies following her and getting in the way. They seem oblivious to traffic, but seldom end up as road kill.
The story is that hurricane Iniki knocked over chicken coops and domesticated chickens escaped to mate with feral chickens originally brought to the island by native Hawaiians. There are few mongoose which are more common on other islands limiting what would be nature's way of controlling the population on Kauai. There are plenty places to hide under the native vegetation and a warm climate. What you get is a lot of chickens.
There is a plan to control the chicken population. Instead of just rounding them up and euthanizing them in large numbers, the legislature has decided to throw feed around containing a chemical that will make the chickens sterile. They supposedly live to about 5 so they will just gradually decline in number. This seems like such a Hawaiian thing to do.
No, huli huli chicken, a popular chicken dish with a strange sounding name, does not mean wild chicken.
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