We had a chick drown last night. We had never lost a chick before in the 3 years we have been raising them. I had read to put rocks in the waterer to prevent drowning, but I always figured the water was shallow enough that they weren't at risk. Now there are rocks in the waterer to keep the water shallow enough that they can't drown.
Some death does come with the territory of raising food - some accidental, like the drowning, some intentional (i.e. harvesting animals and plants to eat) and some to support the cause of feeding predators, whether insect, avian, or mammal. We are sheltered from real death to a large extent in our society - fictionalized death we have plenty of in movies and TV. Somehow experiencing death adds to the realness and trueness of life.
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