She is better today thank you. She is actually preening and 70% more active. I did a combination of things and am not sure which, if any, was the key. Just passing that "plug" might have done the trick. My concern is what may have caused the plug. I had added something to their diet and had possibly been giving them too many meal worms. I spoke with my dad in Argentina, who is a retired rancher and fresh eggs were what we grew up on - had "many" chickens and free ranged within their pens, four 30x30 pens with a large coop in the center and shaded by trees all around with "filtered" sunlight, and he said to just feed them grains (corn, oatmeal, barley and wheat) and their calcium on the side (different container). He had roosters though and I don't so I worry if I give them grains they won't eat the layer feed. They often had bugs that ran in the pens obviously so those are good but what I thought was interesting is that none of his chickens ever got meal worms. It was like giving caviar to them...So, I will try that for a while and see how that goes maybe give them scratch that includes the grains he mentioned.
