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Season 5 - Episode 32 - It’s all about quality of life! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey. Everybody, welcome to the Good
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  Morning from the Chicken Coop podcast.
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  My name is Kim Johnson and I am a mastermindset, coach, creative
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  strategist, and also happen to be a farmer.
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  This is my Chicken coop and I come out here.
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  Every day to record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some. Joy.
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  Into the. World.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. This is Part 2 because I am in
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  the garage still and a little bit more of our saga from
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  yesterday that I did not mention in the first one.
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  This was a big thing yesterday. The Hawks were out in full
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  force. They were.
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  We did not know that they were going to show up the way they
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  showed up yesterday. Let the girls out in the morning
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  like normal and thinking, OK, everything's going to be great.
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  But clearly the Hawks knew we were going to have a hell of a
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  like, you know, cold spell and they were going to be in full
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  force hunting. Not to mention we believe we had
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  a have a breeding pair near us right now because they are all
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  over the place and they are like hunkered down in hunting.
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  So yesterday we know for a fact that two of our chickens got
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  hit. One Mark saw right by the
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  garage. She was walking like she does
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  all the time around the house, between the house and the
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  garage. And Mark saw her, the hawk fly
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  down and hit her and he pushed her up against the wall between
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  the the garage and the door to get in the garage.
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  And fortunately, he was standing in the garage because he was
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  coming out of his reptile room and taking care of the snakes
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  and saw what was going on. And it was unbelievable how how
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  hard the hit was. There's feathers everywhere.
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  And she, he saved her. Now she is currently in a cat
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  crate in the garage because last night she was refusing to go in
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  the coop. She was standing.
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  She looked terrible. She looked like she had been
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  hit. She looked like she had trauma.
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  So I was not gonna put her out, you know, I, I was not gonna
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  expect her to stay in the coop anyway.
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  However, you can probably hear off in the background talking to
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  me. But she, when we went to put all
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  the chickens away, she was standing like under the coop,
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  but she wasn't going in the coop.
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  And so I said to him, Oh my gosh, maybe she has something
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  more wrong with her. So we brought her inside and she
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  spent the night inside of our cat crate that we use for
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  chickens when they're injured. And this morning she's standing
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  up and she's babbling. So we'll see how she does.
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  I'm not going to put her out there until he checks her over,
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  but we're going to check it, check it out and see how she is.
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  The other one, amazingly, did not.
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  I don't know how she got away. I don't know if it was the
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  rooster that saved her. I don't know if she just got
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  away, but there were feathers everywhere and you could see
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  that it was a direct hit because it was chunks of feathers.
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  However, they were the bright orange ones and like kind of a
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  salmon color and she they were all three of them were there
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  last night that have that. So by the blessings of the
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  universe and God, she did not get killed and it seems to be
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  completely fine went up with all the other girls.
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  And this this time of year is always tricky because we know
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  the Hawks can show up. We know we have eagles that show
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  up. We certainly have owls that are
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  here and everyone always asks me, why do you let them out?
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  Because it's such a hard thing now.
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  And I am adamant about this. While it is absolutely
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  excruciatingly painful for me to lose a chicken, I don't want
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  them to live all cooped up nothing.
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  Can you imagine being brought into this world and being told
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  that you can only stay in so many square feet for your whole
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  life? I, I can't imagine that that is
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  not a quality life. So I have made the decision, as
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  hard as it is for me to lose them, I want them to have a
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  quality of life. So I let them go out, I let them
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  walk, I let them free range. They have the whole farm to go
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  all over and they, they are capable most of the time, 90% of
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  the time they are capable of hiding.
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  We have hiding spots for them. We have tunnels, we have things,
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  bushes that we've purposely put in that birds can't get into
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  that have thorns. They can get in there.
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  I mean, it is a planned escape most of the time.
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  And then there are the times when the Hawks just come and you
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  can't see them. That's why we deal with the feed
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  the crows and go through all of that.
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  But the real reason that I'm telling everybody this is
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  because I would never want to live a sheltered life like that.
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  Imagine if you were born and your parents just said, oh,
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  you're never leaving the house because there's too many risks
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  out there. Or you can never go away to
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  college because there's too many risks or you can't drive a car
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  because there's too many risks. It would be a horrible
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  existence. And just like when we have
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  elderly parents that get to a certain point and it's our
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  decision to say, well, do we put them, you know, in a nursing
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  home? Do we actually talk to the
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  doctors about end of life practice and all of that?
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  It's a hard decision, but quality of life matters.
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  The quality of our life matters. I wouldn't want that.
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  So I let my girls free range and that's why they're out there.
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  So hopefully we're going to be able to address the hawk
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  situation. And I'm thinking about getting
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  one of those scary waving guys that waves in the air and like a
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  balloon. But we're working on it.
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  So send us prayers and blessings.
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  We'll get through the season. And the great news is we didn't
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  lose anybody yesterday. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.