We started our kids and grandkids from day one. Slowly introduced them to killing animals for food, their chickens, 4H pigs and lambs, FFA beef, pets get old and die, relatives and neighbors get old or sick and die. It was never dramatized, it was treated as a step in the cycle of life and accepted as inevitable.
This is worth repeating. 👍
We did the same thing. When they wanted chickens we told them that they had to help butcher when the time came. Several months later they were reluctantly slitting throats and ripping feathers. 😂. We made quarts of soup and stock and they canned it after. Start to finish, real farm to table. Same with deer or elk. They butcher and process, snake and cure. Our children are the few I know of that had broken down a deer and processed ..... from jerky to pepperoni, by the time they were 10 they can do it themselves. I don’t recommend the same approach with grandma however. 😁
