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Woohoo! So glad to hear she's doing better!

Quote: Egg yolk is the nutrition a growing chick in the egg absorbs for nutrition. Think of it as mother's milk. Chickens benefit a lot from eating eggs, since the nutrition is so easily absorbed. Whether or not you feed them chicken, i think, is more a matter of how you think about it...

Yeah, i try to think of scratch like candy or dessert. It's good in moderation, but shouldn't be the main course. I also imagine that if she has been eating that high a percentage of scratch - that her protein intake is probably really depleted. I would take her off the scratch and start...

An exam might help narrow down what could be wrong. Have you felt of her crop? You said she's not eating, right? Then her crop should be empty. If it isn't, then you know there's a blockage in her crop. If her crop is empty, the next thought i have is that an egg has gotten hung up...