When I was in the regiment we did the Jamaica trip. Anyone who’s been knows they have many feral chickens. One time some locals cooked some up for us with jerk sauce & traded them with our ration packs, chips & candies. They we’re delicious & better than the beans & wieners our ration packs had. Goes to show one man’s pest could be another man’s feast.

Can you actually eat a feral chicken?

I see you like calling yourself EL LOBO NEGRO but I think a better name for you would be EL SAPO NEGRO.

No me rompas las pelotas y no romperé el suyo!

On a side note I wonder if eating the chickens up at Tuckers Point would give someone mad chicken disease.

Let’s hope not. The feral and domestic cat activity is the only, and I stress “only”, thing keeping the feral chicken population in check. Most likely the feral cats are doing most of the heavy lifting in this effort.

Don’t kill off the cats or the chicken population will explode.

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Nevertheless shanti to you.

My neighbor keeps chickens & I have gotten used to the crowing so I don’t mind. I can’t complain when he gives me free eggs & an occasional hen to eat. No one needs to put down poison to kill these animals just go in the phone book & find a chicken exterminator or do it yourself its quite easy to. I would then I’d eat them because they would be more healthy than the cornel’s mutated chickens. I have no sympathy for the chickens if there killed in a humane way but I have sympathy for our environment. Like you typed they weren’t here to begin with but many other species were so to chance poisoning the endemic ones is wrong.

Just as an aside, catching them is great exercise! (I admit, I haven’t managed to catch one yet – I’m watching to find a nest and grab a couple of chicks)

If chickens were supposed to be here and wild (like the red eared slider turtles that ignoramuses release into the wild) they would have been everywhere when those byes crashed into this place back in 1609.

You need to have some feral roosters shack up next to your house ..then you’ll change your tune .. guaranteed !

Keep on exterminating them … well done .

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tell me, exactly what will constitue as “just cause”!!!

LOL

The problem is not killing the chickens its the way its done. If poison is put down it ruins our wildlife. We used to have land crabs all over Bermuda it was quite a site seeing them cover the roads in the morning. Now there are hardly any crabs left because so much poison has been put down to kill other animals. Another animal that dies from these poisons is our marine toads. Our toads eat many of the roaches & other insect pest. The question on that note is are chickens more of a pest than an influx of roaches if all the toads get poisoned? Putting poison down is an ignorant solution when there’s better ones available.

Probably the neighbors that keep feeding those pesky wild cats with that dried up hard cat food just before they go off to work mornings. Must have made the noisy chickens sick!

I say, if you like those nervy noisy wild chicken and cats, people, keep them in ya house while ya off to work during the day, and then during the night while we all try to get a quiet and peaceful sleep! Our neighbors dogs are more quiet than those neighborhood wreckers!

And X Riding School, keep ya horse tours along the railway trails and roads, and not through our neighborhoods – safety first.
Peace…

If we started eating them then they would be more wary of we humans. As it is now we just pretend that they are not there so they don’t see us as a predatory threat. I say catch them and (after some testing for adverse environmental effects) eat them. They’ll then soon learn to give us some space.

It is a little amusing to see them chase the kids and adults at the playgrounds. We are loosing our position at the top of the food-chain.

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