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Season 5 - Episode 17 - What we can all learn from coop poop! · 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 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. Little bit later, sun's up
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  freezing out here at the Chicken Coop.
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  But I'm out here with the girls and I want to share something
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  interesting with you because I have learned so much about life
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  from dealing with chicken poop. I know it sounds crazy, but it
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  really is true. And chicken poop is something
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  that when you have even a few chickens, you have to deal with
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  because they're birds and they poop a lot.
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  And I have 52 chickens currently, which means I
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  currently have a lot of chicken poop.
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  Now I'm, I am very blessed to have a fenced in farm and that
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  we created on five and a quarter acres.
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  So this, and I've worked my entire life to get this.
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  This was a dream that I manifested and worked my heinie
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  off for. And it, it, it is everything
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  that I've ever wanted. And of course, because I am in a
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  growth mindset, I always want more.
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  And I would love to have 10 acres, but right now five and a
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  quarter acres fenced in. And they are allowed to free
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  range on that, which means their poop is everywhere.
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  Not to mention they have a coop that's very big.
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  It's like 12 by 22, I think 12 by 2 or 24, I can't remember
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  which it is. And when that gets shut up at
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  night, there's poop in there. And then they have a run, which
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  is fenced in yet again to keep them safe overnight.
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  Not that they're out, but it's fenced in and there's poop in
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  there when they hang out there. So I am dealing with poop a lot.
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  And I've recognized that having them has taught me that dealing
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  with the poop sooner rather than later is always a good thing.
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  So every morning I come out and I scrape down if it's on their
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  stairs, they have stairs that go up to their rafters.
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  So they can, they don't have to fly up and down.
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  They can take the stairs, which they do.
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  It's actually more like a ladder than stairs, but it's kind of
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  like stairs. It's kind of weird how my
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  husband built it, but it's great for them.
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  And they pop right up and they pop right down.
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  So nobody gets hurt in the process.
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  But they poop on those stairs. And then obviously when they're
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  in the rafters overnight, they are not like humans where they
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  don't poop when they're sleeping, they still poop.
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  So here we go. There's poop inside and I use
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  straw and then I flip the straw and now some people say use
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  sand. They all have all these
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  different recommendations for what you should use, but I
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  choose to use straw because it breaks down really well for my
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  gardens. And when there's poop in it, I
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  pull it out every two weeks. Very, very like I'm very
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  diligent with it because I want to see what's happening.
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  And I've realized my observation is I always want to know what's
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  happening. Like if somebody had a, an egg
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  that was a soft shell, it didn't have a shell, they would drop it
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  into the straw. And if you just didn't, if you
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  didn't have it and you weren't changing it quickly, you
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  wouldn't know. But overtime dealing with this
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  poop has really taught me so much about how to deal with
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  something quickly rather than let it sit there.
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  So I, I recognize that like, oh, I should take care of it right
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  away. I need to do this right away.
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  I need to be on it. And then I was like, I need to
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  cross pollinate this into my life.
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  Things, other things that I don't like dealing with like
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  paperwork doing and closing out each month, getting financial
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  statements done. All of these things, I want to
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  deal with them sooner because I've embedded into my head this
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  need to deal with the poop quickly.
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  And I, I said to myself, I'm going to cross pollinate this
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  over to other areas in my life like laundry.
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  I do the laundry right away. I don't wait till I've got
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  massive amounts of laundry and my son is walking in and saying,
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  mom, I don't have any underwear. No, I kill the monsters while
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  they're small. But that is a big part of that
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  has become because of the chicken poop.
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  It, I've always been like the laundry person because I don't
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  like not having what I want, but it really showed up in all the
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  paperwork once I recognize that I deal with this chicken poop
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  because I've had them now full time for about four years.
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  And for me over those four years, I, I, I always dreaded
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  the paperwork. But in the last 18 months I'm
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  like, OK, I'm doing it sooner, OK, I'm doing it now, OK, I'm
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  cleaning it up. And then it's like I got to
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  clean this poop up. And in my head, every time I say
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  those words, it's related to the chicken coop.
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  So coops equal poop. Like it's just the way it is.
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  And so if you can take that mentality and bring it over to
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  somewhere else in your life, it is massively helpful.
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  So I'm going to put this out there to you guys.
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  Learn from the coop poop, take it out, handle it quicker, say
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  I'm going to deal with this while there's small amounts of
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  it rather than a problem. And there is nothing worse than
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  waiting until there's so much poop that you just can't stand
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  the smell, you can't stand the look of it.
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  It makes you feel gross. And I only let that happen once
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  and that was when I had COVID. And I will tell you what it it
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  was horrible. And I will never do that again
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  ever ever ever. Because it is way too much.
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  And by handling it quicker, I don't have to feel that way.
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  So learn from coop poop my friends, learn from coop poop.
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  And I will see you all tomorrow and I hope you all have a very
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  very blessed day. Bye.