Acting sick while laying egg

[birdfreak1831]

What are the protein and calcium percentages of the basic feeds?
What is the daily volume of all the snacks...compared to the daily volume of feed?
Tho the snacks may be nutritious, they may be diluting the nutrients on the feeds,
especially essential vitamins/minerals/amino acids that are needed to assimilate the calcium.

I kind of expected this response, aart.
I do know that snacks are snacks [small], not meals. The birds usually get one in the morning after they have eaten breakfast [their crumbles] and a second later in the afternoon.
I also watch carefully that no one snarfs down the lions share, that snacks are shared as equally as possible.
Its the rooster who needs encouragement to eat his share, which he often doesn`t, no matter how much he too likes a treat. His tendency is to leave it all to the hens.....

The chickens` basic food, Purina organic layer crumbles , has 16% protein, calcium is [min] 3.25% and calcium [max] 4.25%.
Not sure what the "min"/"max" percentage means. Might it be that the percentage for calcium in each crumbles bag varies between 3.25% and 4.25%?
I live in a very rural area and these crumbles are the only organic kind I could scare up around here.

 

[aart]

Not sure what the "min"/"max" percentage means. Might it be that the percentage for calcium in each crumbles bag varies between 3.25% and 4.25%?

Yep.

I would cut out all the treats for two weeks, except for the mealworms, and see if there is any improvement. Back to basics, good ration and plain water.