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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

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    Hen was in the middle of laying, then started walking around, and then stopped trying to lay.

    Is she egg bound? I tried googling this but nothing helped. I'm nervous. She's never done this before.
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    hen has soft sneezing, more skiddish, and no more eggs

    My "coop" is some trees in my backyard lol, otherwise they just free range in my backyard. And thank you! This quells my worries.
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    hen has soft sneezing, more skiddish, and no more eggs

    She's a barnyard mix, around 10 months, a big bigger than a silkie but unsure her weight. She's softly sneezing a lot and doesn't lay anymore. I can't tell if that's from the stress of the heat, new flock mates (she's been getting bullied), or sickness. She's been like this for about 2 weeks? No...
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    Hen lightly sneezing a lot.

    Thank you! I'll be on the lookout.
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    Hen lightly sneezing a lot.

    No change in bedding, and my chickens free roam my backyard and sleep in the trees so no coop. No other symptoms, maybe eating less? But hard to tell if it's me being paranoid.
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    Hen lightly sneezing a lot.

    One of my hens has been sneezing softly for about a week and I'm a bit nervous she has something with her respiratory system at this point. It's not a normal loud chicken sneeze, but a soft one like a huff, but still obviously a sneeze. What should I do?
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    Keep a word, drop a word!

    hand off
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    Flock barely drinking water ever since moving here

    Mud water? LOL! That's so funny, glad they're so resourceful! It's pretty dry where I am, so I doubt it.
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    Flock barely drinking water ever since moving here

    Hmm I'll try that, but if these chickens are that spoiled I don't know what I'll do! California, it's nearly summer. That's why I'm so concerned! I guess it's been a bit cold recently, generally 60 degrees.
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    Flock barely drinking water ever since moving here

    They moved here 4 days ago. Help! I've kept their shallow bowl full and clean and they've barely been drinking it at all! I change it every day and toss the excess water into my compost and refill straight from the tap. Is tap the problem? What do I do! I'm so worried. Is it because I've been...
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    San Francisco Bay Area: Need to re-home 4 beautiful, laying hens

    Yes! I'd love to. And that's so sad, I'm sorry about that :(
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    San Francisco Bay Area: Need to re-home 4 beautiful, laying hens

    Hi! I'm located in San Jose, I'd love to rehome your hens. Here's my current flock right now, only 2 so far. They free range in my backyard and eat lots of yummy fresh veg in my garden!
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    2 BEAUTIFUL HENS NEED A HOME-ORANGE COUNTY, CA

    Hello! I have 2 beautiful girls already, both mixes. One is a barnyard mix and the other is a silky mix I think. I'm located in San Jose, so if you're willing to do the drive, I can meet up Salinas, about an hour from where I am. I let them free range in my backyard.
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    Cardboard Coop

    These are super helpful! Thank you so much! It's always hurt me to see good things go to waste, haha. And it doesn't help that it's free!
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    Cardboard Coop

    Thank you! And you're right, I'll probably just use my boxes as shade or maybe mental stimulus for the chickens instead. Thankfully I live in California where it's super dry, but it doesn't hurt to be careful.
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    Cardboard Coop

    I've been collecting free plywood and pallets from FB marketplace for a bit, I was planning on making something from that. I do have a couple friends that could help, so I'll probably just stick to the reclaimed materials. Sad I won't be able to make it a cute little house :(
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    Cardboard Coop

    Aw :( Back to the drawing board.
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    Cardboard Coop

    I was planning on sealing it with plasti-dip to help with molding, so hopefully this won't be a problem. I had cardboard out for a day or two with the girls to see how they'd react and they were very uninterested in it.
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    Cardboard Coop

    Is making a coop out of cardboard a bad idea? Itll only be for summer, I don't think I'll have the time to build an actual one until the semester ends in a month. Right now they sleep in a fenced up old desk LOL. Here's a quick little design I made, since it's not gonna be forever, might as well...
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