Sunday, 21Jan07
Highlights: Jakarta is whacking birds, and I’m wearing out the keys on my computer
It’s interesting to read the news sometimes, because I just learned that Jakarta (the city outside my front door) is going around whacking chickens and ducks in an effort to control bird flu. They killed over 10,000 this weekend. Apparently the 5th person died of Bird Flu this month in the city, bringing the total death toll to 62 in Indonesia of H5N1.
I would have been completely unaware, had I not seen it in the paper. To describe how common chickens are here in the city, I pass 3 or 4 on the sidewalk when I go for lunch 5 minutes away.
According to the Jakarta Post, there are 2,684 neighborhoods in Jakarta. Half the homes in each neighborhood own chickens, ducks or pigeons, bringing the average neighborhood total to 1,000 birds.
It’s funny to me that chickens roam the streets and sidewalks as freely as dogs in Bali and cats on Java; but they do. I always wondered “who owns these guys?” do they go home to the same house every night? What happens if a chicken gets hit by a scooter? It’s gotta happen. Chickens run into the road all the time… in the city.
Well, however many decades or centuries this has been the norm here, according to the Jakarta governor, residential poultry farming is becoming illegal, and the police will launch door to door raids on 31 Jan, killing whatever chickens they find. Surprise!
And while all that is going on,, I’m whacking away at my trip report.
Highlights: Jakarta is whacking birds, and I’m wearing out the keys on my computer
It’s interesting to read the news sometimes, because I just learned that Jakarta (the city outside my front door) is going around whacking chickens and ducks in an effort to control bird flu. They killed over 10,000 this weekend. Apparently the 5th person died of Bird Flu this month in the city, bringing the total death toll to 62 in Indonesia of H5N1.
I would have been completely unaware, had I not seen it in the paper. To describe how common chickens are here in the city, I pass 3 or 4 on the sidewalk when I go for lunch 5 minutes away.
According to the Jakarta Post, there are 2,684 neighborhoods in Jakarta. Half the homes in each neighborhood own chickens, ducks or pigeons, bringing the average neighborhood total to 1,000 birds.
It’s funny to me that chickens roam the streets and sidewalks as freely as dogs in Bali and cats on Java; but they do. I always wondered “who owns these guys?” do they go home to the same house every night? What happens if a chicken gets hit by a scooter? It’s gotta happen. Chickens run into the road all the time… in the city.
Well, however many decades or centuries this has been the norm here, according to the Jakarta governor, residential poultry farming is becoming illegal, and the police will launch door to door raids on 31 Jan, killing whatever chickens they find. Surprise!
And while all that is going on,, I’m whacking away at my trip report.
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