I had 8 Golden Comet (red sex link) hens for about a year now, never had a problem, great layers, great birds. Each of the last two days i found a dead hen face down outside, with a nasty bloodied looking vent hole. There were some blood covered eggs, but not sure if that was associated or not. Now today, there is another hen, with a bloody, tender vent hole, that at least one of the other hens keeps pecking at. I think she shares the same fate as the other two. I have no way of seperating them. What is happening ? Is it one hen or group attacking others? Or is it an egg laying "injury", if u will, of the vent coupled with agressive birds. I have had them since chics and never had problems till now. I can pick out the aggressor as she has the bloody beak. Thanks for you help !!!!