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Season 4 - Episode 212 -I may look calm on the outside, but something else is going on on the inside · 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 to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some 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. We are actually in the garage
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  and we are sitting on the couch that we have in the garage with
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  Miss Amelia. Can you say hi?
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  Miss Amelia is sitting here wrapped in a towel and you last
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  night when I went to put the chickens away, I found her in
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  the hay, not sitting up top where she normally is in her
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  spot. And completely and totally her
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  wings were all spread out to the sides.
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  And nothing wrong with her. She seemed alert, but obviously
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  that is not the right position for her to be in.
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  So I picked her up and her feet were all clenched into little
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  balls. So that's always an indication
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  that something is definitely not right.
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  And I brought her into the garage.
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  We got our electrolytes immediately, not knowing what
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  could be going on. She didn't have any visible
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  signs of trauma or any of that. And of course, because they are
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  my girls and I get very close to them.
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  And Amelia, I've had her for, let's see, four years, yeah,
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  four years now, and she is one of my favorites.
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  She's the one that comes and steals all the figs and loves
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  figs with me, is in the garden with me all the time.
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  So this is this is a tough one for me.
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  And I sat with her bawling trying to figure out what we
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  could do. And obviously it was 830 at
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  night and there wasn't a heck of a lot we could do except give
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  her electrolytes and see what happens.
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  Well, this morning I went to the coop and I put her in a separate
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  spot so she would be OK. And I got out there very early
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  before any of the other girls woke up.
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  And came, you know, grabbed her and she was still, she was OK.
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  She looked perkier. And what's interesting is when
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  chickens are not well, the comb on the top of their head becomes
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  pale. It has this strange draining of
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  color. It looks very odd when it
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  happens. So you know, something's going
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  on. So this morning, her comb color
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  is back, and she seems to be much perkier.
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  She seems to be a little bit on so immediately I went and got
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  her some breakfast. We had a side dish of rice and
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  corn last night. So I know she loves that stuff.
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  And I got her a couple of figs off the trees which she ate and
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  I gave her more electrolytes and she is sitting on the couch in
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  here now. She got up and what I actually
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  think happened to her is that she might have a broken egg
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  inside of her, which is really not good for chickens.
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  I mean, this is it's like it can really cause them to die.
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  But quite honestly, you know, I like to tell you guys all the
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  truth on here. She pooped and it looked like a
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  big chunk of the egg itself came out, didn't look like normal
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  chicken poop. So here we are, we have to wait.
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  We just have to wait and see and see how it goes.
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  And I'm going to go to Tractor Supply and I'm going to get her
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  antibiotics in case in fact, it is that we can deal with it
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  right away because thank goodness we can get chicken
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  antibiotics. The Tractor Supply, because you
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  can't just get them anywhere. And for those of you wondering
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  why don't I just take her to the vet, Well, try to find a vet
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  that will see a chicken. It doesn't happen anymore.
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  It's the days of having the doctor pole in the neighborhood
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  that will see any vet at any time are really gone and most of
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  the vets when you call them for are exotic animals, won't even
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  touch them. It's extremely frustrating.
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  So even if I could get my vet, Doctor Reyes is amazing and I
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  love him and I'm sure if I took her to him he would do
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  everything he could. However, he's not open on a
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  Saturday. So here we are.
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  We are waiting and we're going to see what we can pull off
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  ourselves between our knowledge, the first hand book, knowledge
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  of looking it up, Tractor Supply knowledge and trying to work
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  through this. But the point of telling you all
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  of this is this is always the hardest part for me.
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  I don't do well with this. I live in a fairy tale world in
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  my head of them always being OK and when they're not OK, it
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  freaks me out. I will do everything I can.
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  I'm relentless with it, I will work at it.
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  But it does internally I can feel myself going like panic
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  mode, like somebody has lit my hair on fire inside my head and
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  I am running around trying to fix it.
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  So externally, you would never know that, but internally that's
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  happening. And I think it's important to
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  know when you are, you know, talking to everybody.
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  When I'm coaching, I always want everybody to know the truth.
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  I want them to know about what's happening.
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  So while I may look calm and cool and collected on the
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  outside today, I will be panicked on the inside like I
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  was last night when I found her. And I will manage it.
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  I will get through this regardless of the outcome.
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  But I and I realized chickens have short lives.
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  Sometimes they do many things to, you know, kill themselves.
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  It's amazing how they get into things, but every so often, you
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  know, while all my chickens are special, there are a handful
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  that are super special and she is one of them.
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  And she's one of my original girls.
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  And I'm going to do everything I can to make sure she's OK and
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  manage my state in the process. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and say little prayers for us over here.
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  Talk to you soon, bye.