It's because the economy is crumbling and the ones in the city will be faced with growing food on their patios with quail or something in bird cages from Pet Smart. Maybe even a pygmy goat for milk in the bathtub for the little ones or to bake with.
It might have been different if they would have understood what your saying about providing for their families and instead of chasing the city life thought to obtain an farm. On a farm the economy can crumble and the chickens will keep laying and the mule will plow and and the seed sprout. But now who do we know who has a farm and why?
Yep.
I just lost my last chicken about 3 weeks ago.
The neighbors moved in with their Pitt bulls.
I bought a bb gun after 50 attempts to plead with them about their dogs coming over 4 or 5 times a day.
It sorta worked for a while but eventually they killed her.
Sad day. I had her for about 12 years. She used to come get me during the day to go hunting bugs. I would turn over boards or bricks so she could eat the bugs under them. I always made a little time when she came and got me.
She survived attacks before and had a limp from a Jack Russell attack. I actually saved her from that one. She was tore up pretty bad.
Once she was attacked by a chicken twice her size and almost killed her. Her head looked like a blood helmet.
I had to rub oil on her eyelids because they were healing shut. On one eye I had to carefully cut her eyelid with a razor so it could open.
She will never be forgotton.
Ole Matilda