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good question !
he was a semi feral chicken that just adopted us, guess he thought our yard was "good pickings" -- so I don't know the ancestry
the family "over the back fence" used to raise game cocks, though they moved several years before he showed up; I always figured he might have been a stray offspring
however there are roosters similar to that, ALL OVER Maui ... and Kauai ... and some on Oahu
on Maui we have a half-acre lot, with a good many trees (macadamia, mango, mulberry, orange, tangelo, tangerine, avocado, kukui, grapefruit, papaya, banana, Cook Island pine, and plumeria)
they drop a lot of leaves, great places for bugs to hide ... we have more trees than most anyone else in the neighborhood; and our cottage tenant is a great gardener who has turned the back half of the property into a tropical rain forest (she spent many years living in Hana) ... so it's free range heaven for chickens
based on his offspring with the three semi-bantam hens who hatched eggs under piles of branches, I'd say he was carrying more than just Game .. he looks a great deal like a Brown Leghorn rooster as well --- half the chicks were fluffy yellow, half were brown barred with black ... NONE of them survived to adulthood ... some taken by feral cats, some shot by tenant's son because he didn't like the chickens roosting in the trees and leaving poo on his car
we adopted some chicks before we left last spring, the cottage tenant was going to care for them on our behalf, and we haven't heard anything about it since; there have been other things going on that were higher priority, in terms of communications ... I guess we will find out when we return, sometime after Christmas
good question !
he was a semi feral chicken that just adopted us, guess he thought our yard was "good pickings" -- so I don't know the ancestry
the family "over the back fence" used to raise game cocks, though they moved several years before he showed up; I always figured he might have been a stray offspring
however there are roosters similar to that, ALL OVER Maui ... and Kauai ... and some on Oahu
on Maui we have a half-acre lot, with a good many trees (macadamia, mango, mulberry, orange, tangelo, tangerine, avocado, kukui, grapefruit, papaya, banana, Cook Island pine, and plumeria)
they drop a lot of leaves, great places for bugs to hide ... we have more trees than most anyone else in the neighborhood; and our cottage tenant is a great gardener who has turned the back half of the property into a tropical rain forest (she spent many years living in Hana) ... so it's free range heaven for chickens
based on his offspring with the three semi-bantam hens who hatched eggs under piles of branches, I'd say he was carrying more than just Game .. he looks a great deal like a Brown Leghorn rooster as well --- half the chicks were fluffy yellow, half were brown barred with black ... NONE of them survived to adulthood ... some taken by feral cats, some shot by tenant's son because he didn't like the chickens roosting in the trees and leaving poo on his car
we adopted some chicks before we left last spring, the cottage tenant was going to care for them on our behalf, and we haven't heard anything about it since; there have been other things going on that were higher priority, in terms of communications ... I guess we will find out when we return, sometime after Christmas
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