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Season 2 - Episode 29 - We lost one of our girls · 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 master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody, good morning.
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  Learning from the chicken coop. So today I have story to tell
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  you and it doesn't start off very happy.
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  We lost one of our girls yesterday, our little one of our
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  little leghorns to what we believe was either a towel, or a
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  raccoon, and there's always a risk of this when you free
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  range, your chickens. And we understand that and we go
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  into it with the attitude of, you know we want them to have
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  their best chicken lives that they can have.
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  And sometimes that comes with a higher level of risk, especially
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  when you live in the country and you know, that there are other
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  things that can take them out, we have our whole entire Farm
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  fenced in so that there's no risk of, we minimize the risk of
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  certain bigger Predators getting in, but anything is possible and
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  airstrikes are always possible, and raccoons are just devils.
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  It's because of how equipped they are to climb and do
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  whatever. So this happened at dusk
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  yesterday and that is definitely one of the danger zones.
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  And I have to say, I wasn't sure I was going to talk about this
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  because I've been in tears about it since yesterday and absolute
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  wreck. I chose not to be outside at
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  that time which I typically try to do.
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  I can round everybody up from the corners of the property.
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  Sometimes the rooster misses them and didn't get everybody.
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  And she was off on the edge of the flower garden and she just
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  got picked off. And I chose to stay inside and
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  watch a movie because I was exhausted from not sleeping the
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  night before. So, obviously, my brain went to
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  the place of having massive sadness, and massive guilt, and
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  all of this because I Felt like if I had just been up, I would
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  have seen it. I would have, you know, changed
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  it and all that's possible and at the same time that's not what
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  happened. So when I was trying to decide
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  if I want to talk about it or not I said you know this is
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  actually something which is a great lesson for me to bring up
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  and talk to everybody about because I could be sitting here.
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  And while some people may think that this is silly, it's a
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  chicken. Why is she having this visceral
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  reaction to it? It's because these are like my
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  family. Is she was one of my originals I
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  raised her from the time. She was two days old and it's
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  just they're my they're my family.
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  So regardless of your opinion of chickens, there's a lesson in
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  this. And the biggest one for me is I
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  could sit here and I could keep going on and on about what I
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  could have done, or how sad it is that I chose to do something
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  and I missed it. I could have saved her.
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  I Shoulda Coulda Woulda, but I tried to teach you guys all the
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  time, the reality of living in the moment and recognizing that
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  we are where we are. And it doesn't matter how we got
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  some where it matters that we're there, and it matters that we
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  are in this position of reframing it.
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  So, in my reframe of this, I made the decision to say, you
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  know, again I have worked really hard to give them the best
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  chicken life, they Possibly can have letting them be chickens
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  that run around free and having the best time that they can have
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  digging in the dirt digging in gardens looking for bugs, doing
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  all the things that they do. Oh so well and not allowing
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  myself to get into this headspace of having to put them
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  in a box so that I can control how long I have them.
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  But their quality of life goes down.
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  And I have to keep remembering that I Have to keep remembering
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  that there is a part of me that while I did an outstanding job
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  and I still feel like I did an outstanding job with keeping
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  them as safe as I could. There's always a risk and
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  there's always a part of me that wonders how I can minimize the
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  risk. How can I do better?
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  Because that's part of being human, but I can't let that
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  become the reality that I focus on, so that I'm staying in a
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  state of sadness. I also have to remember, That
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  you know, mother nature always rules and there's nothing I can
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  do about that. I can't change the nature of a
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  raccoon or I can't change the nature of an owl.
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  Just like we can't change the nature of people that were
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  surrounded by, unless they want to change.
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  We can't change the nature of other situations and problems
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  unless they want to change. But Mother Nature, man, she just
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  she does her own thing and we just have to learn to live with
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  it and just like death in general.
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  We're never going to get out of it and the point of this is that
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  it just makes me want to do an even better job today.
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  When I wake up and say okay how can I let them have even a
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  better quality? How can I give them even more
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  fun to have? What else can I do?
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  So in the event that they do have to have one of those
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  incidents happen to them that I know for sure that I've really
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  done and given them the best opportunity.
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  Ready to be the best chickens that they can be really like,
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  think about it. The best chickens that they can
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  be but then the lesson comes back to us being the best us
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  that we can be being showing up and being living our life to the
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  fullest showing up and not playing small showing up and
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  doing the things that make us uncomfortable.
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  So that we just can grow from it.
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  Exponentially doing the things that make us feel alive and
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  vibrant and, and not living in the mundane.
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  Because living in that mundane, Gets old quickly and that's why
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  we get stuck. That's why we stay the place.
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  We stay because we can't get out of the mundane.
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  We go through the motions of the everyday.
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  So a lot to think about and a lot to wake up and be grateful
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  for I still have 40 chickens, I still have one rooster and 39
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  girls that are absolutely healthy and happy this morning
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  and having their breakfast and enjoying Yourselves and being
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  bossy to each other and eating and having a great time, and I
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  still have a beautiful farm and I still have a beautiful family.
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  And even though I'm sad for the loss and I will be sad for the
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  loss for a while. It's not going to stop me from
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  making sure that they have the absolute best situation that
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  they can have. And I'm going to continue to
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  spoil them rotten. And I'm going to continue to
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  remember that. Life is precious whether it's
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  the life. If of a chicken or if it's the
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  life of a human or if it's the life of something else, life of
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  all kinds is precious. So I'm going to go out there and
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  I'm going to enjoy the hell out of it while I have the ability
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  to do that. So I hope you find your joy
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  today. I hope, you know, how much I
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  enjoy doing this all for you, and I hope you guys have a very
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye. If of a chicken or if it's the
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  life of a human or if it's the life of something else, life of
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  all kinds is precious. So I'm going to go out there and
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  I'm going to enjoy the hell out of it while I have the ability
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  to do that. So I hope you find your joy
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  today. I hope, you know, how much I
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  enjoy doing this all for you, and I hope you guys have a very
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  blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.