My good friend Leah at Eating With Integrity will be glad to know that there are lots of free range chickens in Kauai. Yes, I’m still talking about Hawaii.
Wild chickens are pretty much everywhere in Kauai. I even saw a bunch in front of a KFC. I guess they get their chicken from somewhere else. Heh heh. The birds were first introduced by the Filipinos who moved to Hawaii a long time ago and the locals attribute the freedom of the chickens to a big hurricane that destroyed many chicken farms and set these fowls free. They have flourished in Kauai because they don’t have too many natural predators. Where chickens on the other islands have to fear mongooses (why isn’t it mongeese?), these don’t because mongooses didn’t get introduced to Kauai.
