Roosters

ok, i like roosters. unfortunately, my galley kitchen is too small to have all sorts of rooster stuff laying around (no pun intended, although, roosters don't lay anything but hens)...*oooops* anyway, do have two pieces, one's a rooster wind vane. it's not an actual wind vane cuz then it would never fit in the kitchen, but it's made of metal and shaped to look like a flat wind vane. the other piece is a clock that i saw and had to have. of course, it's a cheap clock that i found at wal-mart but hey! the ambiance is what i'm talking about here!

You would not believe where people here collect roosters. There is a law against chicken-fighting in Hawaii, but you can own the fighting gamecocks. There are a few homes around Hilo with their whole yard devoted to little houses for these proud little cusses with the bird staked out front of his house in each case. They are not good eating. Not pretty. A pain to mow around. So they are there just because the owner of the house in whose yard their little houses sit just likes to have them around crow ng at all hours of the day and night. Very odd indeed!

so is owning gamecocks a status symbol? don't see myself as owning a real live rooster. the only one i've ever run into in someone's back yard was MEAN! my friend's dad came out with a belt to stop the rooster from coming after us. we were retrieving eggs and he didn't like it one bit. and talk about stink! they also raised rabbits to eat and i learned from them that mama rabbits eat their young if left in the cage with them. so how in the heck does a wild mama rabbit raise her young? do they kick 'em out after a day or two? and speaking of rabbits, they make excellent housepets and are better than cats, i hear. they can be potty trained and you don't need to worry if you own dogs, rabbits can handle themselves quite well. c'mon terry, open that animal conference for me, got the furry critters on the brain!

Hey, you were stealing his progeny...his dynasty...his heirs! These mean buggers get rapier sharp steel hooks strapped to the backs of their legs as weapon with which they eviscerate their competition. I am not really positive about this, but I truly think they are not raised for an honest living...but do not know... Rabbits and rats do better in the wild because they do not worry about population density as they do in their cages. They can only see the four walls and figure they will starve if they let the little ones survive. Give 'um more room!!!

So, to answer your question (got side tracked by the bunnies) - you bet having a stable of fit fighting chickens (Filipino variety) is a huge status symbol in some cultures in the islands.