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Season 4 - Episode 192 - Funny Lessons from the Chickens! · 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.
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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, good morning from
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  the chicken coop. So one of the quirkiest things
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  about having chickens is that the Roosters actually do
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  multifunction. OK, everyone thinks that, you
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  know, Roosters are hellacious and, you know, they're hard to
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  handle. But when you get really good
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  Roosters, they are unbelievable at creating a peace and a calm
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  among all the girls. Now, we all know that there are
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  a ton of phrases out there in the world that really to
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  chickens like, you know, being all cooped up, you've heard me
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  talk about them before. They're there for a reason.
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  But one of the ones that I absolutely love to observe is
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  when the girls get into an argument, when they get into a
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  squabble, how quickly the Roosters come to break it up and
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  they don't hurt the girls. They separate them and then as
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  soon and they watch to see if they go back at it because often
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  the girls are like guys in a bar who can't stop fighting.
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  They will just keep going at each other.
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  And I just witnessed it, which made me laugh.
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  And I said, you know what, I have to share this observation
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  because it's so funny how they're like humans.
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  Two of the girls got very worked up about a snack I brought out
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  and they were like, they saw it. They both went at it.
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  One of them got aggravated that the other one went after it.
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  And blueberries, by the way, in case anyone's interested in what
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  it was, berries. And sure enough, they went at
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  each other. Now, one of them is my
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  Americana, who's called Hootie because she looks like an owl.
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  She has the little puffy cheeks that puff out.
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  So she looks like an owl. And she's very much a loner and
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  she often stays to herself. And yes, chickens all have their
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  individual personalities and she definitely has her individual
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  personality. And ever since she was little,
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  she's just been different than the other birds.
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  So I just, I don't know, I except her for who she is.
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  And then one of the other birds is one of the Gray girls who
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  just gets constantly into everything.
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  She's Miss Curiosity. So you can see their
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  personalities already don't match.
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  And as soon as they, those Gray girls, there's eight of them and
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  they're referred to as the Gray girls because they all came at
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  the same time. And they're all, other than
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  their Combs being a little bit different, they all look exactly
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  the same, slightly different shades of Gray, but they all
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  look very much it's the same. And they are super curious
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  birds. So obviously going at Hootie is
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  not a good thing because they are not going to be OK with it.
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  And you know, it's, it's just they're going to go right at
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  each other. In any event, this is what
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  happened. And immediately, immediately
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  they start jumping at each other.
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  And yes, chickens do that. They jump up at each other with
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  their feet out and their claws out so that they can try to hurt
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  each other. And lo and behold, there was a
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  rooster nearby. Rufus was right nearby, and he
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  came running right over to stop it immediately.
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  Because if he hadn't, they would have kept going and they would
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  have hurt each other. But because he's here, he's like
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  the emotional police. He stops everything.
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  He doesn't let them, you know, get sucked into each other.
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  And I love that about him. He's a really awesome rooster.
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  He's got a personality of being somebody who pays attention.
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  He's super brave. He's he puts all the chickens
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  away. The moment something goes on in
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  the sky, he gets those girls hidden.
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  And I'm, and I just can't help but thinking to myself how much
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  they are just like us in so many ways.
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  And when I observe how he separates them because they're
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  having an argument over something, how different is that
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  than people? We all need people to help us
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  separate, help us pull ourselves out of it.
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  And it, it's such an easy thing. It's like when you when you look
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  at it and you see the direct correlation between how they
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  act, someone's there. You think about school, you
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  think about our close quarters, you think about the police, you
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  think about all these things. And it's throughout nature.
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  It's throughout nature. Everything, every, every system
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  has its dominant and it has its submissive.
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  Every system has all of these things where it needs
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  protection. And it makes us realize that we
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  are not so fabulous as we think. We are not so elevated.
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  Just because we don't speak a language of chicken doesn't mean
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  that we can't see how they communicate.
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  Just because I don't speak the language of trees doesn't mean
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  that I can't understand what's happening.
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  You know, it's, it's amazing how 1 you lose 1 tree in the storm
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  or you lose a section of a tree in a storm and then all of a
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  sudden there's a gap and something else immediately fills
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  it in. It's like another tree knows
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  right away, oh, I can grow there or this can happen.
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  We have had all these live oaks on the farm and they were
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  blocked by tree pine trees. And we have tons of pine trees
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  and they break really easy because they, the roots are not
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  deep here. And they're dangerous actually
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  in a lot of ways because they break so easily.
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  And we took out some of the pine trees to give those live oaks
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  space to grow, and they immediately transformed.
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  It was like a breath of fresh air for them.
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  So the point of this all is observing what's around you,
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  observing that we are not so oh so special and that crazy
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  enough, we're a lot more like chickens than we think.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.