"Top of the food chain indifference," LOL, I'm definitely using that one!
I doubt I'll ever start raising any large animals, but it's always nice to know what to expect. One of my neighbours raised pigs for a while, but I think it was a bit much for him; they kept escaping and hanging out with the other neighbour's goats.
I wouldn't be surprised if the goats didn't instigate the pig escape initiative. Now there's a species of animal that is in the dictionary under the mischief entry. Good lords did they cause me no end of grief for the fifteen years I raised them.
But they were so tasty and cute at times lol!
And I wish more people were as awesome as you when it comes to livestock. They automatically want to go big first, and I am like, "You want to try some chickens and rabbits before you go with that $5000, 1200lb dairy cow?" I know so many people who have gotten hurt or worse yet, the animals got hurt or perished, because people were in such a dang hurry to homestead that they didn't put the learning work in.
Oof, and I didn't mean to get all sermony there, lol, hope you are having a lovely morning with your hens😊