Yeah Hermon, Munty is right, 3 years old is old for an ex batt girl, although a couple of people have kept them for 4-5 years, but I think most just die in the first year of us having them. In 18 months of keeping them, I lost 25 out of a total of 75 hens.
I never thought about them dying because they weren't getting the antibiotics anymore that they had at the battery farms! Poor little things. Hope Frankie improves.