Hello! Newby from OKla.

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Hi everyone!!! I am new to having backyard chickens! We live in Oklahoma and this year we are flooding like crazy. So I am trying to deal with that. Also my husband bought 10 hens from a local lady. We already had 4 for a couple months. The new birds are very small and are molting feathers (what the lady told my husband). They just want to sleep all the time and are very very thin. I don't know if the are sick. Everything I have read doesn't seem that they are but it just seemed odd that they are sleeping all the time. She also said they were already laying and we have had them three weeks and haven't had one egg. Mind you we have had thunderstorms high winds tornadoes and flash flooding so that may be scaring them. Any advice would be welcomed. Or any advice on literature I can read would be amazing too!! Thank you
 
Hi, welcome to BYC!

You guys sure have had your share of crazy weather. The stress of moving to a new place and the weather could have an impact on them. Change is stressful for chickens. Do you know how old the new chickens are? Maybe they aren't really old enough regardless of what the seller said. Do you know the breed?

Or they could be ill. I hope you had them in quarantine them before mixing them with your existing birds. Are they eating, drinking and pooping ok? It wouldn't hurt to post on the emergency/disease forum for input:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/10/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures

Hope you find out what's going on. It's nice to have you join us.
 
I also recommend quarantining them. They may need worming and a good look over to hunt for mites or lice. Any of these can run down a chicken in a short while which may be why they seem to sleep so much. Intestinal parasites are getting all the good stuff from the feed, so the chickens can be literally starving even if they eat well. While they aren't laying, they have no need for the extra calcium in layer feed. They could be on grower feed till they resume producing eggs..

Do you have a vet that could run a stool check , so you would know IF they have worms, and which type, so he could give you the best treatment for them.
 

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