Death On The Homestead

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Yesterday we had a death on the homestead. Well, it is on the farm, but it is pretty much the same.

warning If you get triggered by opinions that don't match your own, please don't read on or watch.

I had an interesting experience yesterday. The pop door on the chicken coop had fallen and pretty much killed a chicken. It was still alive, but needed to be dispatched. There was no way it was going to survive, and I am sure it was in some pain.

Because I have grown to a different place in my life, I decided that if there were someone else that would do it...that is the better option for me.

Someone else stepped in to handle it, but they were unsure. When they did it..it didn't kill the chicken..so I had to act quickly and do it.

The process is never easy, nor should it be. A common misconception about living as a "homesteader" or self reliant individual, is that killing is all part of it. I don't agree. It is often said that the more you do it the easier it becomes....why would we want to get used to killing.

In this video, to be clear, I do not speak against people that feel the need to kill and eat animals...I speak against the idea that killing has to be a part of it, or that it should become easier with volume.

I may not be 100% self sufficient, and I have to use the grocery store, but that wouldn't change unless I had a larger garden and greenhouse.

Sometimes we all have to make hard choices. Sometimes we make them without even knowing.

Be well.
~The Yeti

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