Into Day 3 of working on these and can confirm that tabby Max is a boy, am so glad I have spent time with them because although still very wild I have been able to have a good look at them and poor Max has an open wound on his scruff,perfectly round almost like he has been given a frontine/stronghold at some point, going to start him on antibiotics straight away.
These poor kittens were literally dumped on me by a nameless independant rescue but reg charity still fundraising who would not put them into their pens because they are derelict, and no one wants to do the work,turns out they were trapped because one of trustees is friendly with person who spotted them, they were brought to me covered up in a trap and I am told they were captured 2 weeks previously but had no flea/worm treatment, I now wonder if they were given pipette on back of neck which caused this as all I have given them is a milbemax each.