In my area of the island of Maui, there is a lady known as the Chicken Lady. It was a good friend of mine. There are probably several so-called chicken ladies here, but I'm talking about the one in Kihei.
is Waikiki Kihei Maui, more or less. There are divisions with homes and roads, but there are also many apartments for tourists. Amid all touristry related shops and condominium buildings, there are small segments of Kihei, which are forests and meadows. These areas seem untouched just like in the days when the Maui fees and the young warriors walked this small village in the country.
, but here in 2010, and for the past few years, every day at 5:00 pm, my friend rides along the lower path in Kihei and turns left onto a road that would not reveal the name, but I'll say it runs parallel to - and between - Uwapo Road and Kanani Road. There is a forest on each side of the road - as there are many on the lower road in Kihei. Black-crowned Night Herons and Hawaiian Stilt birds share the forest canopy top between dusk and dawn, but during the day, flying in fresh water ponds a few blocks away. My friend parks where the forest begins on the right shoulder of the road towards the mountains - in other words, the tariff Mauk. Red Junglefowl live here and the other side of the road, too. Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) live throughout the island of Maui and other Hawaiian Islands. They are of the pheasant family and originally were in India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. They are now on the Hawaiian Islands, for centuries were the Hawaiian Islands for centuries. men are spotted with red feathers on the head and chest. males have a purple and turquoise tail feathers. chickens are various shades of beige and brown camouflage them that well.
It is a sight to see how it comes, driving 15-20 miles per hour in his little red car. chicks and chickens on the right side of the road sees it coming, so they start running forward to meet her. It is to drive past them and then veer to the right shoulder, so it does not run down the thirsty, hungry little fish or their mothers. There may be an identical red car in front of it two blocks before he arrived, but the chickens just stand there and wait. They know the unique sound of her car. When they saw her car a block away and check that it was her car engine they are hearing, they and their little chicks run forward. roosters hang back and watch.
people driving, and some provide support for racing hens and little chicks. Random male driver in a pick-up truck speed, some hanging onto their steering wheels from right elbow and right wrist, their heads stuck in an odd angle from the driver's door window, obscenities injection from its mouth and then yell, "Crazy Chicken Lady." It seems that the weirdest men on Maui have something against the survival Junglefowl. They also seem to intensely dislike any middle-aged woman in a baggy, feeding-the-chicks-cow, dress and hair in a bun, or maybe it's just this one middle-aged women who do not like. My friend ignored cheers and jeers.
She said her friends - when they are asked - that she mostly goes to the place of drinking water in containers for the birds because they are thirsty. As soon as she pours the water, they start to get their first sips of water for the day. She knows that Junglefowl bugs can forage from the forest floor, but she feels sorry for the chickens, chickens and roosters, if you do not have water in this humid, hot weather. And, she reasons, because it is there in any case, she might throw a few chicken scratches on his way.
It has to be nimble when it arrives. She stops the car and quickly pulls the lever to the driver's seat to open the trunk. She grabs her gallon-size jug of water sitting in the passenger seat, jumping out of the car, runs to the rear of the car, throws the door to boot up, scoops out a bowl full of chicken scratch, throwing the contents of the birds on her right, then refills the bowl and run across the street from the chicken scratch in one hand and a heavy jug of water to another. That's how it all goes when everything goes right.
If there is traffic coming, she can not move, so she has to yell at chickens and roosters across the street to stay there. They were quite miffed that the chickens on the right side of the road always get fed first. There are usually a bit of chicken to feed on the right side of the road, and if the mother hens not fed quickly run towards the middle of the road with their litter squeaking and peep-peeping close behind.
There was a rooster on the left side of the road that someone dropped there recently and he will not wait an extra second if my friend can not run right across the road. This is not a cock Junglefowl. He is a kind of diversity of land and very intent on being first she welcomes. Often, my friend has to stop traffic by putting her hands and arms in the air so that she can get to the other side very quickly, because the cock is already halfway over. Once she gets to the other side, he follows her there and tries to get in front of her to beg to be petted. She does not pet him. She throws a chicken scratching for him, but he ignored it at first and was followed as she rinses the bowl of water, filling water bowls and throws a chicken scratching to hold birds. This, then, are simple techniques and strategies used by my friend for food and water Junglefowl in my little corner of Maui: Give them water, give them some food and give them hospitality for a short time were able to enjoy life. I do what can be done to protect them from the road they have chosen to live next to a long before he arrived in Maui. According to this purpose, it places the water bowls and chicken over the fence into the forest side.
For some reason, there is rarely a chicken to be seen on the left side of the road, although recently there was one. It's hard to say why the chickens on the left side of the road do not survive more than one or two days, but the chickens on the right side of the road do.
teenagers Junglefowl roosters disappeared on both sides of the road every once in awhile, too. There are more than 30 cats on each side of the road that are fed by their colony caretakers, a man and wife team, each evening after dark. But there are other predators in the forest also. They are men and their sons who set traps every month or two to catch young roosters and take them home. These young people raise roosters to adulthood so that they can set the unprotected birds in cock fighting. With people set traps, they sometimes inadvertently catch chickens and chickens. They let go, probably, when they come for their capture young male birds. Unfortunately, many cats have been caught in the plastic fishing reel-string, too. Most cats die of hunger and suffering. I know a cat who chewed off his feet and found the keeper of a cat, check the Maui Humane Society and gave a clean bill of health. It is a rare happy story in the woods to catch the victim.
There are also cases where mom and dad go in the woods together and managed to catch or net number of young chickens for taking them home to join their backyard chickens and a rooster ruling. There is poverty in Maui, so it is understandable self-sustaining family decision and I do not think people are predators who simply want to feed their families get a few more hens.
But the people who come in their big pick-up trucks with the young, impressionable children and squeal their tires, leaving, when my friend comes, these are people I call predators. Police on Maui can easily see who are the cock-warriors, because they have blue barrels set up in their yards with roosters chains with upside-down blue barrels. If there's one family on Maui, which has such a set-up and they are really just raising roosters for the purpose of selling them to people who raise chickens, I apologize in advance. This may be the case in some cases over several islands and they are exempt from the description I give now. There is no ethnicity here in the Hawaiian Islands who believe that their culture is right - as Georgie Fong Haiku puts it - to enslave, imprison and kill the roosters, no, there are many who believe it is their right. Of course, not all people within these ethnic support cock fighting. I do not know of any research to show whether the supporters of a rooster in a fight in every ethnic minorities are, or whether they are the majority. If such studies are done, I would like to know the results of such surveys.
So what about the cock fighting?
odds are behind the scenes. place the next cock-fighting event is planned. How many police officers in the Police Department Maui to know about the event ahead of time and do not want to participate, not to arrest those involved, but instead turn a blind eye? I do not know. How many police officers in the Maui Police Department (and other police departments around the Hawaiian Islands) to bet on this so-called sport? I do not know. I hope the answer is no. However, events are held regularly. Two roosters are drugged in a state of aggression. Razor blades are strapped to their feet and they were forced to begin the fight to the death. It is pure, unadulterated cruelty to animals. Also, it is the negligence of parents to children if some of these parents are actually their children or teens to cock-fighting. However, the latter statement may be just my opinion. former statement is not opinion. Cockfighting is a misdemeanor under Hawaii state law, punishable by a fine of up to $ 2000 a year in jail.
In April this year, adopted resolution (HCR277) that supports cockfighting as a cultural activity. The resolution was introduced three representatives stating that cockfighting is a national sport in the Philippines and "foster a tradition in many cultures around the world." It was great opposition from animal groups on the resolution. Maui Humane Society spokesman, for example, said that cockfighting is a cultural and cruel crime. It is hard to believe that the resolution was passed, but - due to House Tourism, Culture and International Affairs of the Standing Committee
.resolution does not give any person in Hawaii to any legal rights to do this cruelty. Cockfighting is still illegal here on Maui and the Hawaiian Islands.
the other day at the airport as I was boarding the plane, back man T-shirt caught my eye. There is a picture of a beautiful rooster silkscreened on T-shirt. words said, "cockfighting is not illegal. It is our culture ."
Wrong!
My friend feels the least she can do is give Junglefowl little water and food every evening before sunset, and sets up with verbal abuse. If she ever spat at - and she figures that will probably be the next stage - she says her strategy then would be to make her "chicken run" early in the morning instead of the order this afternoon delight. She wishes she could have done more.
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