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Season 5 - Episode 118 - Dealing with POOP! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the chicken poop.
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  Every morning when I come out here, it's always the same
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  process. I have to most of the time I
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  work to beat the girls to the gate, but they actually beat me
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  to the gate some days. And I don't want to say it's
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  often, but they do beat me to the gate.
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  And that just means that their little door opened up and they
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  get to come out of there, their coop.
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  And then they are waiting at the main gate from the run so they
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  can get out and go do their chicken things in the morning.
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  Which is lovely for them because morning is like the time that
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  they just enjoy being out. It's quiet, it's peaceful.
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  And they tend to go out and, you know, dig all day long and then
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  come back. They've got food here all day
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  and whatnot. But neither here nor there.
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  One of the things when they leave the coop that I do is
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  reorganize the coop, put out fresh food, dry food.
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  They have crumbles, they have other things, they have water,
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  they have calcium, they have all different types of rocks that
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  they can because they have to ingest rocks in order to digest
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  their food. And so I, I put that fresh out
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  every morning. But a big task that I do every
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  morning is deal with chicken poop.
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  So this this becomes such a metaphor for me in my head that
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  I wanted to share this because I love my chickens now.
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  They are some of them are the kind of chickens you can pick up
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  and hug and they let you. Some of them are not.
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  Some of them have. I like Hootie, who has been with
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  me since day one. First batch of chickens.
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  She looks like a little owl. I don't think she's ever laid an
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  egg. I've never seen her lay an egg
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  ever. And she's got her.
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  She's definitely a loner. She does not want to be with the
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  other chickens. She does not want to be.
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  She's here with them now while they're eating breakfast, but
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  most of the day she's off on her own, doing her own thing,
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  fiercely independent. And you know, I don't think
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  she's ever laid an egg. But in in any event, that's not
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  what this is about. It's the chicken poop.
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  So I come in and I have to deal with it because if you don't
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  deal with the chicken poop, it deals with you, you end up with
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  flies, you end up with stench, you end up with sick chickens.
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  You get, they get, they can get fly strike, which is a terrible
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  thing to have happen. And chickens already have enough
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  ways to kill themselves. Believe me.
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  They seek them out and find them.
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  And it always makes me laugh because I'm just like, well, if
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  there's a way to get into trouble, a chicken will find it.
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  And it's very similar to humans. Sometimes we just seem to, you
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  know, find ways to get ourselves in trouble even though we know
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  we shouldn't. But the chicken poop is real.
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  And it's something that every day when I go in, I flip the hay
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  over, I sprinkle some of the first lime on it to make sure.
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  And again, this is not an endorsement for first lime.
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  It's just what I use on it. And I scrape their ladders going
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  up so there's no piles of poop sitting there.
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  And I get it out now, some people who have chickens and
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  listening to this are going to say that's excessive.
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  Why do you do that? You don't have to do it.
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  No, I don't have to. But I choose to because what's
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  important to me is a clean environment and that I see
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  things while they are small so I can deal with it.
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  And it is a massive reminder that I, I have to accept the
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  fact that there's poop in the coop every single day.
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  Like I go out there and I'm and I know if I haven't chicken, I
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  have poop. It's just like if you have a
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  dog, you have poop. Well, it's kind of like in life,
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  you have this issue with your own world, right?
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  Like you have to accept that if you're alive, things are going
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  to happen. Things are definitely going to
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  happen and you're definitely going to have to clean them up.
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  And by just saying, OK, I accept the responsibility of the poop
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  of the chickens, I'm going to clean it up.
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  I'm going to make sure that this is part of my, my daily, you
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  know, chores. So I accept it.
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  I don't expect to be overrun. I don't expect it to be more
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  than normal. I just OK.
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  Yeah. I don't catastrophize poop.
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  I don't sit there and in my head go over and over and over about
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  how much chicken poop there is and why I'm using this as an
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  example. So you remember it because we do
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  that in life. We accept that things go wrong
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  in our lives. Like that's just part of being
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  human. I've got, you know, all this
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  beautiful garden as I overlook it from the chicken coop and my
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  zucchinis are a disaster. They started off so amazing.
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  I got maybe 10 zucchinis out of it.
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  And then of course, the little bores got in and I'm like going
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  to start all over again. I just accept the fact I didn't
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  expect it to happen. I didn't catastrophize it, but I
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  accepted it. Just like with the tomatoes, I
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  accepted that they can get something, but I'm not expecting
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  it. But I'm prepared.
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  I like know it's possible so I can deal with it and I can make
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  sure that I'm going to end up with what I wanted.
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  So handling the the vision in your head up front helps a lot
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  and just making it part of your knowledge, like, hey, listen,
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  we're going to have things that show up.
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  There is no question about it. Just like chicken poop, it just
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  shows up. So use the metaphor, recognize
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  it and don't catastrophize it. Just accept it and clean it up.
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  Because then you have, you know, a beautiful day ahead of you.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I'll
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  see you tomorrow. Bye.