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Season 4 - Episode 248 - Farm drama with Roofus! · 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 happened 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. 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.
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  I want to fill you in on a little farm drama going on.
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  It's over, thank goodness, but here's what happened the other
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  night. I went to put the chickens away
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  and I as I go into the coop, right in front of the egg laying
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  boxes, the first set of egg laying boxes, there are little
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  roofs that are there, but the chickens don't sit on those at
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  night. All the girls and the two
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  Roosters go up into the rafters into their area.
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  They have ladders that get them up and down so they don't have
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  to fly up. But King Rufus was sitting on
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  those little roofs and I it was dusk.
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  It was not dark in the coop, but it was not bright.
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  But he never sits on those. And I look over and I'm like,
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  hey, buddy. And he's got his head hanging,
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  which never happens. And I look and there's blood
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  everywhere. I mean, there's blood
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  everywhere. And I was just what, what, what,
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  what I, I started freaking out because, you know, they're my
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  pets. They're they're not like
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  chickens to me. They're my pets.
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  And his entire head is covered in blood.
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  And I, the, all the girls are in the coop.
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  They're eating like they're, they're in the, the run area.
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  Some of them are still out on the farm, but very few of them.
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  And you know, they're in the area of where they're getting
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  ready to go to bed. And so I immediately grabbed my
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  phone. I call Mark.
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  I'm like, hey, I have a problem. You need to come out.
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  Help me immediately. Call Lucas immediately.
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  They're coming out to help me figure out what happened.
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  Lucas is looking to see if there's feathers anywhere, if
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  there's a missing, like somebody'd one of the girls got
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  killed or whatnot. And we pick him up and we can
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  see that his entire head is what is, is wounded somewhere in all
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  this blood. I mean, it looks like Tony
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  Soprano was inside the coop. There's blood all over the
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  floor. There's blood all over him.
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  So we bring him into the sink in the garage and we start cleaning
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  him up and realize that he's he he actually got into a fight.
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  Somehow he got into a fight. And there are feathers all over
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  the ground out by the area at the edge of their run, outside
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  of their run. So most likely this was a hawk
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  hit. And we can see that it's white
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  feathers, but we're doing a head count and all the hens are
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  there. So we're like, OK, so somebody
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  got hit and he saved them. Like this is a a very common
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  thing when they're these Hawks that are not big enough.
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  You know, a red tail hawk is big enough.
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  I think it's the red tail that's no the is the red tail smaller
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  or bigger? I can't remember.
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  Red shoulder, red hot tail. There's two of them.
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  One's bigger, one's smaller. One can't carry the chickens
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  away. One could carry a chicken away,
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  but we have the smaller ones. The preponderance of the Hawks
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  we have are the smaller ones. So sometimes they'll try to make
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  a hit, but they can't successfully complete their
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  goal, but they will do anything once they make the hit, they'll
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  sit on top of it and they'll just try to break the neck of
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  the bird and they'll RIP it apart right where they are and
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  it's gross and it's awful and it doesn't happen often.
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  They kind of have learned they can't do it successfully.
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  It takes more energy so they don't put it out there.
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  So we're looking at him all over and he's letting me.
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  I mean, most people think Roosters are mean.
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  He is not mean. He's super sweet.
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  He's letting me hold him. He's in a state of life.
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  I think he was in shock based on what happened, but he's totally
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  fine. Let me just say that right now,
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  he's totally fine. We cleaned him up.
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  We found his wounds, his comb had gotten ripped up in the
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  back. So we cleaned it all up, put
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  medicine on it because we have a chicken welfare emergency kit in
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  the house. So we have stuff that we can put
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  on him and got him back in the coop at night.
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  Like dried him off, got him back in the coop at night, put him up
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  where he should have sat because we want to make sure nobody else
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  is going to pick on him because chickens are like that.
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  Like when somebody's down and out, they tend to pick on him.
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  Doesn't that sound familiar with humans?
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  So, so we make sure of that. And the next day he comes out
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  and he's being loud and proud right again, like out there to
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  doing his doodle, making sure that everybody knows he's in
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  charge. Now, the point of all of this is
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  one, he got himself into a situation where his life was at
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  risk and he didn't care. He went and just went right out
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  to save the girls, ran right into it.
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  Very much like I think of him, like first responders.
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  They don't, they don't think about their own welfare.
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  They think about the welfare of what they're supposed to do.
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  And I love him for that because the last rooster was like George
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  Costanza and ran in the middle of the fire and took off and
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  would run right over the children and that one would run
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  right over the girls. He was more interested in saving
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  himself than he was in being brave.
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  So, you know, I'm so grateful that he did what he did.
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  And the moral of the story is he shook it off.
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  And the next day he was right out there again, being who he
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  is, commandeering, standing in the middle of the field when
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  something gives an alert, like, alerts him.
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  He sends the girls to hide with the other rooster, and he stays
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  out there to take care of it, which is unbelievable that he,
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  you know, he's a year old. Yeah, he's a little bit a year
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  and a half old. And that he's so brave about
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  what he does, like he just does it.
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  And it really just gives us such a great metaphor that he won.
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  He shook it off. Well, two First, he ran into it
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  and didn't, you know, run away from what he had to do, what his
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  job was. Second, he stayed out there and
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  made sure everybody was OK because there was not one girl
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  that was missing. And the third thing is he shook
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  it off. He shook it off and went right
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  back out into it. So what great lessons for us are
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  all in this and just learning from them and saying, gosh, you
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  know, that's how I want to show up when I need to show up.
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  So it was just a great reminder and I just wanted to share it
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  with all of you. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Bye.