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Season 4 - Episode 109 - Breakfast Lessons · 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 mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to 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 coop.
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  So I want to tell you a funny story.
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  Every morning I come out here to the chicken coop and I bring 3
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  trays of breakfast out. I, I'm air quoting when I say
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  breakfast, but I like to give them shredded vegetables and
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  healthy things every morning before they go free range for
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  the day. Because once they're their coop
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  doors are open and then I open up their run because they've got
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  a big, huge area that I can keep them fenced in in in case I need
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  to, you know, never know if there are predators around or
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  what not. And then I open that gate up and
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  they're allowed to go on to the whole farm and spend their day,
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  which they do. But every morning I come out and
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  I always provide them with a morning breakfast and an
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  afternoon snack. And an afternoon snack is pretty
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  consistent. It's always freeze dried
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  mealworms and sunflower seeds. And unless I have something big
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  from the garden, like I'll take a watermelon, chop it up and
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  give it to them. But that's when it's in season,
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  and that's not in season right now.
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  So every morning I have some form of breakfast for them.
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  Usually it's shredded vegetables, a fruit like a
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  blueberry, and hot Peppers put on top of it like crushed red
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  Peppers, really keeps their digestive system clear.
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  And I also it, it really takes care of parasites and whatnot.
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  And they don't taste the heat so they can just chow down on it.
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  And I pour coconut oil, melted coconut oil over the whole thing
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  so that they're super healthy and that their feathers are nice
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  and soft. And they, it actually helps a
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  lot with molting. They don't molt as heavily as
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  they did prior. So, you know, here we are.
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  Do this every single morning. I, I have the same pattern.
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  I try to get out here before the gate is their little auto door
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  opens so that they're not out of the coop and I can get them on
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  the ground. However, it's not always that
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  way. And today was another one of
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  those days. And it's funny.
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  So I was, I changed what I was going to talk to you about today
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  because it's so funny. So I will, they were all around
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  me and they know the routine. They know the routine like the
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  back of their little feet. And I put a tray down and
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  everyone rushes to the first tray.
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  Well, almost everyone. And then the second tray, you'll
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  see a few, a few of them will move over there and they're
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  peeping like crazy and they'll move over there.
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  And then the third tray sits there and there are always just
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  4 chickens that wait. And it's funny because there are
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  the chickens that are like the top, the toppity top of all the
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  hens. Now, the Roosters are always not
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  eating right away. They won't eat right away.
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  They watch what's going on because their job is to protect
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  the hens. So they won't put their heads
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  down and eat right away. They, they as soon as the hens
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  start this, they're like, right now as I'm recording this,
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  they're walking around in circles, protecting, watching,
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  making sure they don't eat as much as the hens.
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  I'm sure most people didn't know that, but they don't.
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  They always. And if they find food, they
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  cluck and give it to a hen. Very chivalrous.
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  And it's very cool to watch how they do it.
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  But right now, they're protecting.
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  But it's the four top hens and always Wanda and Amelia, who are
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  like, Wanda is probably the most curious chicken I have ever seen
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  in my life. Follows me everywhere I go.
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  Comes in my office, gets in my truck, meets Mark at the
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  driveway. I mean, she's a character and
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  1/2 and Amelia is Miss Bold. She'll just go wherever,
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  whatever I'm doing, she wants to be there to see.
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  But she's learned that if I rush that first pan those these four,
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  and then there's there's two others that probably most of you
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  have not heard me talk about. And they're they're very much,
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  they're Americanas and they're very, very smart.
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  So it's this little group. They're all over here on the
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  side eating, getting like no rush, don't have to fight for
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  the blueberries while everyone else is fighting stuck in this
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  massive clump where they're all trying to get cuz remember I
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  have, well I now I have 59. We lost one the other night.
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  No idea. She just disappeared into thin
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  air and don't know where she is. And here we are.
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  We have 59 chickens. So they're all trying to get at
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  1 pan. Maybe the second one has like 4
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  or five of them, but they're all around that first pan except for
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  the ones that are really paying attention.
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  And they've learned and they move over and they change their
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  approach. And it's such an amazing lesson
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  when you stop and think about how we all get stuck.
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  Now. I do the same thing every day,
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  my friends, like every single day.
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  And you think that they would learn after all those days.
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  I've been doing this with them for four years, 4 1/2 years now,
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  and they, some of them, most of them are still my original ones.
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  And I'm like, oh boy, isn't this funny that they just don't
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  learn. They all have to rush to be
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  first. Where if they just changed their
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  approach and turned around like Wanda and Amelia and the other
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  two do, all of a sudden you would see that they would, you
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  know, have more food. They'd have more of the chance.
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  Yet Nope, that's not it. And even when I take so Celine
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  is my French crevicorn, she doesn't see particularly well
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  just because of her puffy featherhead.
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  So I will pick her up from that first pan and I will take her to
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  that second pan and she runs right back to the first pan.
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  And it astounds me all the time. But the real crux of this is how
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  does this that relate to us? Well, where is that same thing
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  showing up in your life? What are you not paying
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  attention to that you need to so?
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  And if you did, how it would change everything.
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  Like that's I tell myself that all the time.
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  What do I need to pay attention to in a different way that could
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  change everything? And if it's just turning around
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  and taking a different perspective, wow, what a
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  difference that could make. I might have a whole plate of
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  blueberries. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow, hopefully
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  with a better voice. They seem to be getting it
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  better. I'll talk to you soon.
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  Bye.