Silicon Valley popular chicken: spend 20,000 US dollars to build a chicken house
According to the “Washington Post” reported on March 2nd, in the US high-tech center Silicon Valley, the Internet elite has a new identity symbol: chicken. In order to raise chickens, they spend large sums of money to build high-tech chicken coops, ask chefs to cook their own meals for famous chickens, and display their financial resources through chicken-raising activities.
John Rand is the elite of the Silicon Valley technology elite. He is the chief product manager of Google’s driverless car project. This job brought him a lot of money, but it also made it impossible for him to sit in front of a computer and feel tired. The secret of his rejuvenation is to hold a glass of red wine, sit side by side with his wife in his backyard, and watch the children play with 13 chickens and 3 sheep. "It's great to sit and see these animals instead of staring at the computer," Rand said.
In recent years, chicken farming has gradually become an urban trend. The Silicon Valley science and technology elites used the venture capital approach to conduct this hobby: investing 20,000 US dollars (about 127,000 yuan) to create a high-tech chicken house for "Silicon Valley Chicken", recording the color and quantity of eggs to calculate chicken productivity, and Try to improve the happiness of chickens and feeders themselves.
The owners will use the engineering matrix, and calculate the annual growth rate of the trial balance to determine what species to raise; some owners also use the concept of software updates, such as "first generation, second generation, third generation" to discuss Your own chicken.
In the rest of the U.S., ordinary people may spend $15 (about 95 yuan) to buy a common chicken, but the elites in Silicon Valley will make a big wave and throw over $350 (about 2222 yuan) to buy one. Non-commercial breeding, long history of purebred chickens. These purebred chickens have characteristics that feed owners want, such as calm but love to be close, willing to hold children, or rare, beautiful appearance, and can lay eggs.
Novices usually start with relatively common breeds, raising 4 or 5 chickens first, but some “fans” raise 15 to 20. These chickens can eat well-cooked feeds such as organic salmon, watermelon, and steak. At the same time, the owner must pay high veterinary expenses to ensure the health of the chickens he keeps. Due to the superior living conditions, these chickens are said to live for more than a decade.
Feeders will find professional construction contractors to cover chicken sheds and use expensive timber or redwood to match their homes. The house will also be equipped with solar panels, automatic doors, and cameras that can be monitored by the owner. Someone even controlled the temperature, ventilation and lighting of the house through a smartphone.
Silicon Valley chickens are often referred to as "family members." A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, registered her one-eyed pet chicken as an "emotionally supportive" animal. According to her, chicken feed must be mixed with canned baby food. She also takes a bath and blows her hair every week.
The report said that the larger role of chicken breeding is actually "displaying financial resources." Some people specifically summed up the elite of the Silicon Valley: "Let's show off the logic": The ability to raise a group of chickens means "my family has a backyard"; there is a backyard that means "I have a big home"; and in the Silicon Valley real estate circle, "local big" Means "My family has money." (Integrated)
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[Editor: Wang Yuan]