I hope ByBob and anyone else who may be offended will forgive me for the morbid pictures.
I read so often on BYC how wonderful and easy chicken keeping is. It seems it doesn't matter how you keep them, they die in runs, in coops and out in the open.
I certainly haven't and I think I speak for many others, you don't get used to it. All the deaths hurt.
A thing I've always liked about the Irish is the wake and how they deal with death. Many in civilized countries hide the whole business of dying away from the rest of society.
I have the dead in the house while I dig their graves. They all take something with them for the ferry man.
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Yeah, we do that too. Yesterday I caught Tuppence drinking from one of the waterlily buckets ~ & that water is filthy. Perfectly good clean water in the coop, but nope, she gotta drink the disgusting stuff.
so true!
). My poor father-in-law now has straw all through his car! I offered to help him clean it! 
Anyway, I made a little pyramid and tied the string together so it shouldn’t move.
