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Season 4 - Episode 281 - Farm news and what we can learn in loss…. · 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 happened 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.
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  To. Teach distinctions,
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  possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring some
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  joy. Into the.
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  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.
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  So today I'm going to tell you a sad story because I have to
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  announce that I talk about all the good stuff and I definitely
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  have to talk about the bad stuff.
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  And I'm going to work on getting through this without crying, but
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  I can't promise you that that's going to be the case.
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  So normally if I was shooting from the porch this early in the
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  morning, you would still hear Rufus off in the background
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  crowing. But today and moving forward,
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  you will not you can you can hear our other rooster, which
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  it's nice to hear him crowing because he hasn't crowed really
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  at all since Rufus passed away over the weekend.
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  At the end of the last week, he passed away actually because a
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  hawk was has been just trying to decimate the girls and this hawk
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  was out there again. And so far Rufus has saved
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  multiple times, I mean, countless times.
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  One time one of those times he did get hit and he bounced back
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  up. He fought the hawk off and his
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  head took a lot of beating and he fought it off and we, you
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  know, brought him in the house and he healed and this time he
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  did not. It was the same thing.
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  We went to put them away and Mark found him face down in the
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  dirt and he was still alive. We brought him in, we cleaned
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  him up. We couldn't find any visible
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  wounds, but clearly that the head trauma was too much and he
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  passed away with us in the house.
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  And to say that there is an empty hole is an understatement.
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  Not just for me, but for the girls even, like just even
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  everybody. It keeps saying, you know, it's
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  so, it's so strange not having him out here.
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  It's so strange not having him warning them.
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  It's so strange, like the girls are acting completely different
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  without him. You can tell for the first three
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  days they didn't even come out. They just kind of hid underneath
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  their coop and the doors were wide open.
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  They could have left not only the coop, but the run, and they
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  could have spent all the time like they do every day roaming
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  the farm. But they didn't.
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  And the other rooster has been lost.
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  He wasn't crowing at all. So it's nice to hear him this
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  morning crowing in the background.
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  He would always follow Rufus's lead.
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  He was like clearly the number 2 and he didn't realize that he
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  had moved into the number one position.
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  So last night, for the first time, we saw him standing in the
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  field watching while the girls were out there moving around
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  slowly, but they were out moving around and he came out and he
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  was watching them. And that's like one of the first
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  times since Rufus has passed away that he did that.
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  And it's interesting to me how this little tiny rooster, in the
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  big scheme of things, I mean, he was, he was not a huge rooster.
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  He was smaller than this one that we still have, but he was
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  mighty and how his presence, his energy influenced so much.
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  And it goes to show us again, another freaking reminder of
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  this stuff is that it doesn't matter how big you are.
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  It matters how committed you are.
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  And that rooster was committed. He died for his what he was
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  committed to. And you can, you know, if you're
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  not an animal person and you can't understand, that's OK.
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  I mean, I understand some people are not that way.
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  But when you really think about this and you think about the
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  impact that that energy, his energy had on our farm, his
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  energy had on our lives, it was incredible.
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  Even my husband keeps saying, it's so strange not having him
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  here. It's so strange not hearing him
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  doing what he's doing and alerting us to everything.
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  And it's just really made us rethink so much of like how what
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  a good, good rooster. And for those of you who listen
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  that, you know, have chickens. He was a cream leg bar.
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  And I specifically asked for a brave rooster.
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  And this was recommended to me from the Breeders.
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  And boy, were they right. So I am just passing it along
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  and letting you know what happened.
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  I am working through it myself. It's terrible losing a pet.
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  And he was definitely a pet. And I'm taking away his lesson
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  and I'm not going to take it in vain that the energy that he
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  brought here was profound. And that's what we have to do in
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  our world. We have to take our energy and
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  we want, we want people to feel it.
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  We don't want people to forget us just, oh, overnight.
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  Oh, yeah, she's gone. Oh, good riddance.
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  No, we want people to know and feel our energy.
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  And that's that lesson in this. He was profoundly impactful
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  here. And doesn't that what?
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  Doesn't that speak volumes for who he was?
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  And doesn't that speak volumes for what we can learn?
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  So. OK, my friends, I hope you have
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  a blessed day. I'm going to go blow my nose and
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  dry my tears and get myself back together and get ready for a
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  great day. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.