Good afternoon from Chicken Paradise Hawaii. I still have my cold. I’m sitting on the car, watching the neighbor’s sheep rub his bottom on the fence. Want me to scratch it?
A hen next door
Next to the sheep is this young-looking hen, and believe it or not, she has two chicks about three months old. Nobody knows where they came from. I’ve wanted to bring them in for months.
Hey, Watermelon! How’s life with three chickens? Watermelon used to headbutt me all he liked, but lately he’s calmed down. Strawberry and Blueberry came over too.
A gift: a cat trap
A lady I know, one of our customers, gave me a wonderful present: a cat trap. On the mainland it’s used for pests like raccoons too, but in Hawaii it’s mainly for cats and mongooses: put food inside, and in walks the cat.
In fact, Shimako once walked into it while it was empty, got caught, and panicked all on her own. Luckily it was our trap; someone else’s could have meant being taken away. Be careful, you!
So I’m going to put some corn in it and set it next to the sheep. It can catch chickens too, so I’d like to catch the hen if I can. With two chicks, though, I’m worried one could get pinched. Chasing a chicken around a huge grassy field is impossible, so I have to use my head.
A wall of grass
I forgot to film the intro again! Beside the chicken coop, the grass has grown way over my head. Compared with the eight-foot coop roof, some of it is about three meters tall. Somewhere beyond it is a plastic pool that’s probably breeding mosquitoes, and useful materials to collect, but I can’t get through. So I’m cutting. The grass pricks my hands. It’s hard to do this alone!
Natsu, Ao and, for some reason, Twinkie lined up to cheer me on. Behind the grass were piles of buried materials and a bucket full of water, which explains the mosquitoes. And here is my mountain of cut grass. Shimako, isn’t it great? She isn’t listening.
Meet Yukimi Daifuku
This is Yukimi Daifuku, one of the rescue rabbits I’m looking after at home. They’re munching the grass I just cut. The cage is a bit cramped, but they’re all doing well, and they’re so cute and friendly.
At the time, I asked anyone in Hawaii who wanted a rabbit to get in touch; none had found homes yet. I was also looking for a clinic that might spay and neuter rabbits as cheaply as possible.
The cut grass goes to the rabbits tomorrow. Thanks for watching, and see you next time!