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Season 3 - Episode 44 - Choosing to let the girls free range · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken coop.
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  So today we are talking about choices and cause and effect.
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  And the reason we're talking about this, and I'm going to use
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  the girls today as a as a metaphor for us is because we've
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  had, I've, I've hinted to this throughout the last couple
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  months that we've had some issues out here with a coyote,
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  with a neighbor's dog, with a hawk.
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  And they have been really coming in and doing some damage to the
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  girls. And so far we have now lost 6
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  chickens. And it is just one of those
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  times where it it and two of those chickens were my girls,
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  Dottie and Winnie. And they're they're
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  irreplaceable in the world of their character and who they
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  were as just their little souls. They were so unique.
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  Winnie was the one that raised all the babies for me.
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  And she was such a good Mama and she was just always on point and
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  she would do anything to protect her babies.
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  And shamefully, you know, she died and he didn't even take her
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  body. She she was killed in the corner
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  and he left her there. And in my mind, she died for no
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  reason. However, today we are talking
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  about cause and effect, because as I've hinted about these
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  things happening, people ask me why do you let them out?
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  Why do you? Why do you let them leave their
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  area? So we live on a farm and they
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  have the right to free range everywhere all over the farm.
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  And the they have a chicken coop, they have a building and
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  that building is inside of a run and that run can be shut off.
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  Now even though that run has a fence that is 7 feet high all
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  around it, believe it or not, my friends, coyotes can get over
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  fences. In fact, I saw a picture the
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  other night on a chicken group that I follow on Facebook and
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  there somebody's camera had actually, because she couldn't
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  believe it, she had an 8 foot fence around her coop and she
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  has her. She has a trail camera and the
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  trail camera caught that image of that coyote going right over
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  that fence like it was nothing. I was stunned when I saw the
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  picture, but we knew. We know it's happening because
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  our entire property is fenced in and that coyote is coming over
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  the fence. Now the point here is we are
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  talking about cause and effect today and choices and cause and
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  effect. So when we started this project
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  and when we came out here to do this farm, I grew up in a
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  farming area. And I know what happens.
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  I understand things happen. Do I like it?
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  No, I don't. Do I know that animals have to
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  eat? Yes.
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  Do I realize that the chickens are absolute prey items?
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  Yes. Do I understand that they're
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  going to die? Yes.
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  Do I like it? No.
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  That's just the nature of this process and this problem.
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  And I have made the decision along with my husband that when
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  we free range our animals, they're going to live the best
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  life they possibly can. If something happens to them, we
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  understand we're going to do everything we can to protect
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  them. We have this massive dog
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  Beaufort. When he's outside he then
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  nothing happens to them. But he's not an outdoor dog.
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  At night they are locked up tight in a fortress.
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  We give them some. I mean their coop is wind rated
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  to 150 miles an hour. They are taken care of in a
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  grand way, but I don't keep them penned up because it's not
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  healthy for their psychology. And based on what I do and
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  talking to you guys all the time, you understand you can't
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  be locked up all the time and have great psychology.
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  It it just doesn't work. You have to be able to be
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  yourself. You have to be able to go out
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  all those little metaphors that come from the chicken world
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  about, oh, they're all cooped up.
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  Oh, there's a pecking order, You know, that is all real.
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  And when you own chickens, you see how that works.
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  The reason my girls are so Zen is because they're not locked
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  up, because they have space, because they even when they go
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  in at night, they have enough space.
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  The cause and effect here is we choose to free range them.
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  We choose to let them roam around.
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  We choose to let them have the best chicken life they can.
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  They can go like right now. I opened the gates this morning.
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  I'm having this call with you. Some of them are laying eggs,
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  some of them are here with me picking on the ground for their
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  all their stuff. Some of them are eating yogurt
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  and blueberries and raspberries this morning, and some of them
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  are already off trucking out and going somewhere else to go look
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  for bugs because that's what they like to do.
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  The free Rangers that love to leave, they take off
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  immediately. The cause is, is that I just
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  want them to be so happy. I want them to be able to leave
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  here and go and do whatever they they want to do.
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  But everything comes with effects, right?
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  Everything comes with effects. So if something comes down from
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  the sky, it's highly unlikely that some of them are not going
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  to get taken. And it's something that we just
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  have to live with. And sometimes in life, this is
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  what you have to do. Sometimes you have to know if
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  you're going to take risks and you're going to try to build a
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  business, you're going to have failures.
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  It's part of the process. If you're going to paint, you're
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  going to have canvases that suck.
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  If you're going to draw, you're going to have ideas that you
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  crumble up and throw away. If you're going to write, you're
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  going to write stories and throw stuff away.
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  I wrote the bus book three times before I actually put it out
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  there completely from beginning to end and change the concept
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  every time. So my point here is there is
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  always an effect from something that you start in that process
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  and you've got to separate your yourself from the fact that it's
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  it's always got to be good because it doesn't.
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  Sometimes things happen that are not great, but they they take
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  place because it's the right thing to do.
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  And I do this for the girls because it's the right things to
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  do. I don't want them to have to
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  suffer to be safe. Do you always want to live in
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  safety? To a certain extent, in some
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  ways, yes. But in others, is that always
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  what we want? I don't know.
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  It's a big question for contemplation.
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  So I thought I'd throw it out there with you guys and see what
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  you have to say about that. Because I opt for them having
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  the best life and although it's sad, sometimes I want them to be
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  happy. So I hope you guys have a
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  blessed, happy day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.