New member

Hello there and welcome to BYC!

Congrats on your new flock! Because these birds came from a bad situation, you might give them a good over all exam looking for mites or bugs. Bugs are common in dirty unkept conditions. Look around the vent, behind the neck and under the wings. You might see a lot of broken feathers, red skin, eggs around the feather shafts near the skin (it will look like black dirt) and the combs can be pale as well. Many times when they have external bugs they have internal parasites as well. So you might get them wormed. Worms will destroy the birds real quick and kill them. Check out this link on worms and worming from our learning center....https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/internal-parasites-parasitic-worms-in-chickens

And here is another article on mites and what to do about them as well...https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/mites-chicken-pests-how-to-protect-your-chickens-from-mites

You might take a look at this entire section on keeping your birds healthy and happy too...https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/maintaining-a-healthy-flock

You might also get your birds on some probiotics. Probiotics help to boost the immune system. 70% of the immune system is in the intestinal tract which is where most pathogens take hold in the body. So get some oxygen and healthy bacteria in the crop and intestines and this will help to keep your birds healthy.

Enjoy your new flock! If you have any questions along the way, feel free to ask. Welcome to our flock!