Golden Campine Behavior and Death

[chickman47]

I hatched out some Campines April 2012, 3 roos and 8-9 hens. While in the brooder, over a 2 week period, I found 4 dead and they appeared to have been trampled to death by the others. Now this morning, 12/30/2012, I found another hen dead in the corner of the coop, apparently smothered by the other juvenile birds in the coop. Is this a characteristic of these "flighty" birds or just having bad luck?? Have hatched and raised multiple batchs of chicks in close quarters and have never had this problem before!

 

[willowbranchfarm]

Do they have enough room?? If they don't have enough room to do as they please, then its common finding chicks trampled to death.