Feral Chicken Issue on Jersey Island

[Shadrach]

The reporter does not appear to have actually visited the site of story or did not take pictures. Sex ratio should have been closer to 1 male to 1 female and this year most likely would have included young. Season also hard to determine.

Correct. Pictures taken form picture bank. Reports taken from unreliable sources. I doubt if the reporter has even been to Jersey.

 

[mowin]

I first thought is was Jersey (USA)
Then I seen the UK in the link. Lol

 

[Folly's place]

It's late for 'April Fools' but there it is.
Mary

 

[Shadrach]

It's late for 'April Fools' but there it is.
Mary

Apparently there is a feral population of chickens on Jersey. There are feral chicken populations in many other parts of the world to.
As to the hysterical 'I can't go shopping any more for fear of being attacked by hordes of violent hens and rooster' type reports, well you've been on BYC for a while, you should be used to this.

 

[cmom]

I didn't see one male bird. They all looked to be Red Sex-Link females. I think it's a hoax someone started. I did look it up and found some different reports.

 

[Kiki]

I didn't see one male bird. They all looked to be Red Sex-Link females. I think it's a hoax someone started. I did look it up and found some different reports.

I think the video is actually not part of the written story.
It can't possibly be.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I didn’t watch the video, but there have been news reports about feral chickens on the UK island of Jersey for awhile. Here’s a different report:
https://bgr.com/2019/06/30/jersey-chickens-island-uk-animals/

We have a relative on the Kauai island of Hawaii who visited us in Oklahoma recently. She was quite surprised at our purposeful chicken keeping and the way we treat them as pets. She says that they are a nuisance in Kauai and that few people intentionally keep them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/science/in-hawaii-chickens-gone-wild.html

I guess that there are few predators on both Jersey and Kauai islands, though I would have thought that loose dogs would keep populations in check?

 

[cmom]

I read about the feral chickens in Hawaii too. Miami has areas with feral chickens.