7. Within the late 2010s, city chickens turned the Teslas of Silicon Valley’s tech elite.
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In 2018, an uncommon fad gripped Silicon Valley’s tech elite, in accordance with the Washington Submit.
These scions of expertise started conserving chickens.
And whereas chicken-rearing has at all times been a mainstay of America’s rural and dealing class, chickens turned an uncommon image of luxurious — akin to driving a Tesla, wrote the Submit’s Peter Holley.
Tech bros threw all the things into their new interest, together with spending as much as $20,000 for state-of-the-art coops and obsessively charting the colour and dimension of the eggs laid.
Leslie Citroen, a rooster whisperer whose hourly consulting charges have been $225 on the time, instructed the Submit it wasn’t unusual to see these birds stroll about their proprietor’s lavish properties carrying diapers and roosting in bedrooms.
“As a result of it shouts out, ‘These eggs didn’t come from Complete Meals or Walmart — these eggs got here from my again yard,'” Citroen instructed the outlet.
“It is a whole standing image,” she added.
