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Aloha, and welcome to BYC, sistah! Glad you decided to join our flock. Which island is your hale on? We've lived on both the big island and Oahu. We preferred the big island, but jobs were much more plentiful and paid better on Oahu, so we ended up moving to da gathering place. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. Good luck with da flock.
 
Mahalo!!

We live keauhou mauka, big island. I came over from maui and really love it over there but the other half is born n raised big island and thier was no convincing him :) I love it here and was blessed with a great job. Have 'ohana on O'āhu and visit often. Too busy for me tho. Loving my farm life!!! :)
 
Mauka said:
Mahalo!!

We live keauhou mauka, big island. I came over from maui and really love it over there but the other half is born n raised big island and thier was no convincing him
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I love it here and was blessed with a great job. Have 'ohana on O'āhu and visit often. Too busy for me tho. Loving my farm life!!!
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You live on the other side of the big island from where we were. We were in the Puna district, south of Hilo and between Pahoa and Isaac Hale Beach Park. But we frequently drove over to the Kona side and spent the day at Hapuna beach. Do you have much problems protecting your flock from the mongooses on the Kona side? They bred like rats in the Puna district, and ate anything and everything, including chickens and eggs, forcing me to keep my chickens in enclosed runs. If I had let them free range, I would have eventually lost the entire flock.
 
We have a pitbull and a dachshund who are mongoose machines. They LOVE hunting them. The bully is gentle with the chickens, but the dachshund is not. So far we haven't lost any of the older girls. Have five teenagers in the coop that haven't been let out just yet. We also dug a 12 inch trench around the coop and installed the wire down into the trench to protect them from digging in. Mainly the stupid dog (dachshund) digs, no mongoose threat yet. We have tons of mongoose. Tons...I love Puna. We were just there yesterday actually:)
 
And yes, they will eat anything. Next time try an Oreo on a hook attached to your fishing pole....that's how we eradicate!
 
Mauka said:
We have a pitbull and a dachshund who are mongoose machines. They LOVE hunting them. The bully is gentle with the chickens, but the dachshund is not. So far we haven't lost any of the older girls. Have five teenagers in the coop that haven't been let out just yet. We also dug a 12 inch trench around the coop and installed the wire down into the trench to protect them from digging in. Mainly the stupid dog (dachshund) digs, no mongoose threat yet. We have tons of mongoose. Tons...I love Puna. We were just there yesterday actually:)
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Mauka said:
And yes, they will eat anything. Next time try an Oreo on a hook attached to your fishing pole....that's how we eradicate!
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Once I moved them into an enclosed run I didn't lose any more to the mongooses (I had wire completely across the bottom of the run). I set out traps for the mongooses when I was trying to free range my flock and trapped and killed a number of them, but still there were more. The numbers seemed endless, so I finally gave up free ranging them. One of da bruddahs who free ranges on Kauai says that they do not have mongooses there. Must be nice. :o)
 
What?!? Wow, I had no idea they no more. Come to think of it I guess I've never seen any when I visit. Must be nice!
 

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