Thanks everyone for the kind replies... I still feel like I deserve to be smacked upside the head and called an idiot... sigh.
I have 15 hens and a rooster... they are game mixes, so the hens are constantly broody. I let the broodies hatch one or two eggs at a time, they raise the chicks in the...
I stepped on a 2-week old chick today. It struggled for a bit and then died. I feel horrible.
What really makes me sick is that I don't even know how it happened. The chick was with a broody hen and then suddenly under my foot. Is this a sign that I have too many chickens? I feel like I must be...