The chicken war is on. Since moving into my new place I have also moved my garden to right behind my “shop”. I share the fenced in area with the chief of the family who plants tobacco. Right now I have some tomato plants and green pepper seedlings. I went into Apia for a few days about a week ago and when I returned the chickens had dug up almost everything. I put up a reinforcement fence inside the existing fence. A few days ago I biked over to the neighboring village to talk to the School committee president and came back 30 minutes later. They got in again. I had an idea to build some kind of scare crow. Fences are not full proof. These chickens can fly high. I have my doubts about the “scare chicken”. But we’ll see. My host family has given my permission to kill the chickens. I have almost been attacked by one mama chicken for throwing rocks at her chicks.
A great solution would be to coop them right? Then we could fence in the pigs too eh? Not so. These animals get all their nutrition by scrounging around the village all day. I was sitting around last night thinking about how I wanted to have a dog or maybe even a cat. Since dogs are banned in my village it would have to be a cat. But then I looked around and saw all these animals just running free. I never liked cats anyway. So I have lots of pets. Pigs, chickens, a horse, a few alley cats as we call them back home.
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