Coming Home to Roost

The Covid-19 lockdown has certainly generated some odd stories even in New Zealand, which, otherwise, appears to have had a 'good' pandemic. A community to the west of Auckland is said to have been 'terrorised' by feral chickens, whose numbers have rocketed in the absence of human removal programmes (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/10/like-a-stephen-king-movie-feral-chickens-return-to-plague-new-zealand-village). Most of the problem appears to be caused by one resident who leaves food out for the birds, also attracting some reportedly large rats. I don't think that this is actually something to crow about!