There are the cats of Rome, the dogs of New York’s Central Park and, now, the chickens of Laie.

The feral fowl are a common sight in the small North Shore town, and Brigham Young University Hawaii student Ray Banks decided to make a calendar of them.

The 24-year-old business management senior launched the project in early October on the Kickstarter "crowdfunding" website.

"Well, in Laie we pretty much have them everywhere we go," Banks said. "I was talking on the phone with my sister (on the mainland), then saw some random chicken and thought, ‘I should make a calendar.’"

He hatched the idea as a gift for his older sister, who also attended BYU Hawaii, and then decided to give the project a boost on Kickstarter. For a minimum $2 pledge, Banks promised donors a thank-you email with links to the calendar photos when completed. For $15, donors would get the calendar in print.

He asked friends on Facebook for support and easily surpassed his modest goal of raising $150, with about a third of that coming from folks he did not know. Going into the weekend, with Sunday’s deadline looming, 18 backers had pledged a total of $191.

Banks said he would make the calendar available for another two weeks via a website link on the Kickstarter page, but was not planning to sell it beyond that.

"It’s actually more of a project just for fun," said Banks, an aspiring entrepreneur with an import business called Baseline Bicycles already under his belt.

Born in Fontana, Calif., he had a pet chicken named Rosie while growing up. Both of his parents also attended BYU Hawaii.

For the calendar, Banks will be Photoshopping outfits on pictures of chickens taken around Laie. For example, the September photo shows a hen in a pearl necklace walking her backpack-wearing chicks to school. The December chicken sports a Santa hat.

Those are just early mock-ups and won’t necessarily appear in the final product, according to Banks, who added that no chickens will be harassed, forced into outfits or harmed in the making of his calendar.

He captured the initial photos with his iPhone but will use a digital single-lens reflex camera to capture higher-quality images for the final product.

Contact him via the Kickstarter project page at goo.gl/vZn6YZ or at baselinebicycles.com.