I’m quite choked about this. After keeping all 52 chicks alive for three weeks, I accidentally dropped the heat lamp and it landed on one of the layer chicks, mortally wounding it. Katie was with me so I had to be cool and collected, but had I been alone I probably would have had a little freak-out.

Stephen was also very upset and after insisting on looking at it, claims it was one of the ones he named (great). So now I’m the one who “killed” the chick. I keep explaining it was an accident while at the same time wondering how long it will take for everybody to stop glaring at me…

We are in real trouble when the time comes to butcher the meat birds…