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Kauai island in Hawaii is home to roughly five hundred thousand feral chickens — averaging six chickens per resident. These domestic chickens gone wild roam everywhere from Walmart parking lots to beaches to Starbucks patios, with roosters crowing as early as 3am daily. Locals can't even eat them because the chickens scavenge garbage bins, risking heavy metal contamination in both their meat and eggs. Hawaiian law protects them as a species — killing chickens in public areas is illegal unless they enter private property. With no natural predators and unlimited food, the chicken population has exploded completely unchecked across the island.
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00:00You might not believe this, but Kauai Island in Hawaii has been completely taken over by chickens.
00:04Not figuratively, actual domestic chickens. What you're seeing in this footage is a wild
00:09feral chicken population gone completely out of control. If you visit Kauai you'll feel it
00:13immediately, chickens everywhere. Chickens strolling outside Walmart, chickens crossing
00:17the road while you wait at a red light, chickens sunbathing on beach grass, even keeping you
00:21company at Starbucks. It feels like walking into a giant chicken farm. Locals are driven crazy
00:26because the roosters start crowing at 3 or 4 in the morning, waking everyone up daily.
00:30So why not just catch and eat them? Here's the absurd part, locals won't eat them.
00:35These chickens dig through trash bins eating whatever garbage they find, possibly contaminated
00:39with heavy metals, so even their eggs are considered unsafe. Even crazier, local law protects them as a
00:44protected species. Unless a chicken enters your private yard, killing them in public areas is
00:48illegal. So Hawaii's chickens now live in paradise, no predators, unlimited food supply. The island
00:54currently has roughly 500,000 chickens, averaging 6 chickens per resident on Kauai.
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