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At the risk of stereotyping, older Asian people tend to be very in touch with gardening, unlike most westerners, and chicken shit as fertilizer is one of those mainstays of "rustic" gardening.
Where I live you will see front yards with lawns that are barely surviving and between them there will be some lush front yard with huge, established dragonfruit/pitaya trees trellised nicely and you can almost guarantee that there's an East Asian person who is 50+ years old living there that knows exactly what the hell their doing with a garden. And you can almost guarantee that they have bags of chicken manure out the back to make things grow.
It's a really good example of a sort of cultural disconnection that I see in most westerners where I live - we are disconnected from community to the point that we barely know how to form and maintain it, we are disconnected from the land that we barely know how to cultivate anything on it, we are disconnected from our food that we barely know how to produce and preserve and prepare it... There's a sort of widespread colonist malaise here that disconnects us from every facet of life.