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Season 4 - Episode 123 - Ducks · 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 I'm actually at the bird
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  feeder right this minute, not the chicken coop, the chickens
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  are all out, but I have a funny story to share with you.
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  So when we first started this whole project of the farm, I
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  really a huge intention of making this place like
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  completely organic, inviting as many animals as I possibly could
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  that could coexist and live really well together.
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  Hence my whole purpose of trying to have, you know, the crows
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  work with the crows and feed them peanuts so that they
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  protect the chickens and that, you know, we cultivate
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  dragonflies so that the dragonflies eat the mosquitoes
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  and the pond has turtles and all kinds of things in it that are
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  just unbelievable, the things that are showing up.
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  But in any event, so this morning, why am I at the bird
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  feeder? Well, because a few like 20-3
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  months ago, we had a Mallard duck show up and he brought with
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  him, He was showed up by himself at 1st and then he came with a
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  female and they would hang around, but they would leave and
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  go and leave and go. And then we saw her sitting on
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  some eggs and unwittingly, ducks are not particularly choosy, but
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  where they lay their eggs. So she laid them under a a bench
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  that we had made out of a big chunk of one of the trees that
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  had fallen. And of course, those eggs got
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  eaten pretty quickly by something overnight.
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  So she abandoned him. She took off and she abandoned
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  him. And I felt so bad for him
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  because every day he was by himself and he was here and he
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  was hanging out with the chickens.
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  And the chickens come to the bird feeder, hang around at the
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  bottom of it in case the birds spill something.
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  But they're also most of the day out hunting, looking for other
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  things. But this duck kept hanging
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  around, hanging around. And I, I had said, you know
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  what, if you, if she left you, that's OK, you're going to find
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  somebody else. And I kept talking to him and so
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  now he's my friend and he keeps coming, you know, consistently.
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  And then about 3 days ago, he showed up with a different
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  female duck. And I can tell because she's got
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  different markings and she is clearly not as skittish as the
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  first female duck was because she hangs out and she's, you
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  know, she'll let me walk pretty close up to her.
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  And he lets me get much closer than he did when he first
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  started arriving. And I always have scratch, which
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  is kind of like this mishmash of feed of corn and just some other
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  grains for chickens. I don't give them that much of
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  it, but I always have like a little bit.
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  And I give it to him on the side, especially if Amelia's not
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  following me. And I can sneak it because
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  Amelia loves scratch and she will just eat it all.
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  So anyway, point is this morning there they were waiting for me
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  right outside the door. He brought her right close up to
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  the door and they're waiting there and I'm laughing about it
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  because I'm like, you know, if this isn't a manifestation of
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  everything that I had wanted, it's crazy.
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  I've got Bluebirds that have are using the Bluebird houses that
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  we have three or four of them out there and they're using them
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  like condominiums moving in and out, laying eggs, having babies,
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  moving out. I've set the parameters up so
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  that they have the perfect, you know, what they need in order to
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  succeed and thrive. So you've got the house, you've
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  got it right near a tree, you've got a water source with a bird
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  bath plus the pond. And then they have food which
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  they love, freeze dried mealworms so they can come.
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  I've got all these other my chickens are thriving at the
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  dragonflies are thriving. Everything is going and now I
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  had always wanted ducks, but I didn't want to like raise ducks
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  because then I knew if I did they they can get really messy
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  and they don't do well when you're raising chickens and
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  ducks together. That can be tricky disease wise,
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  like farming them. But having a pair of ducks that
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  just show up is just so sweet. And they're right now as I'm
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  speaking to you, I just given them some scratch on the edge of
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  the pond and he took her right down to where I poured it and
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  they're eating breakfast, happy as can be.
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  They'll jump in the water and then they will go out there and
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  you know, it's a pretty big pond.
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  It's a quarter acre pond. So they have plenty of space and
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  they can, you know, go around and do whatever it is that they
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  want to do for the day. And it's so hysterical to me
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  that even if you just think these things and you live in the
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  intention of creating it, but that particular thought of the
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  duck was not there. But the overall feeling of
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  creating this environment where creatures can just come and be
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  safe and survive is definitely always in my head.
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  Boy, it is just happening more and more and more.
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  We're seeing more and more things and I just wanted to
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  share that with you. So hold your thoughts special
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  because I can tell you they show up.
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  All right, my friends, I will see you tomorrow and I hope you
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  have a blessed day. Bye.