Down to three

In quite rapid succession we have lost two of our rescue hens. Their droppings became very runny and they became listless and died. We are starting to realise that these poor birds have been so intensively bred that their life expectancy is shortened. Our bantam Rhode Island Red, who outlived our other batch of hens however is still going strong!!

One down! Yes that does mean dead!

Yes, sadly we have lost one of the girls. It was two days ago and we had noticed one started to get picked on. We took her away from the others during the day, but she did not make it more than two nights. Don't know why, maybe being halfbreed they are just not as resistant to thing? Any advice from others?