Great post blu. Thanks for sharing. We did meat birds twice. Know what you mean. Perfect analogy.
re: Chickens
Would love to do that but We still live on our boat in Alaska.
(Just put our forty acres in VT up for sale because PR changed her mind)
Neighbors right behind us keep chickens. I’m in a typical looking suburban 1/3 acre lot neighborhood - chalk it up to “Things You Can Do With No HOA” (and it helps that it’s unincorporated, too). They only keep them for eggs, though, not meat, and I think there are fewer than ten, so we haven’t heard any undue squabbling. (Although I have had to pitch a straying one back over the fence on more than one occasion.) They have many cats too, who come over to visit often. They are all well fed (courtesy of Chewy.com, not chickens! lol)