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Quote: meal worms are also very high in calcium, higher then a lot of other feeder insects. I can't wait until my colony gets big enough to start feeding the girls.

Illia mentioned high copper content foods like quinoa deepening the blue colors in colored layers, I have heard this from other sources too, and many of the blue / green layers came from South America where they would have had access to quinoa. I do not personally know if this is just old wives...

Illia, I did a quick search of mealworms and copper content and found several sites that indicate meal worms are pretty high in copper content, but can't find a site that says exactly how much.

I sure hope there is something to your observations (though I do not doubt Illia's knowledge on any chicken subject ) b/c I am currently growing my own mealies for my girls. I have not fed them any yet b/c I started a couple of months ago w/ only a couple hundred mealies so I need to...