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Sounds like they get a nice tasty salad.

Out of curiosity I calculated spice %: Assuming a big 22 oz spice container (the largest I could find doing a quick search) mixed with 50 lbs of feed, each spice is about 2.7%, and all three combined are 7.6%. How are your results? Egg flavor, quantity, etc. Meat quality? Does it seem to...

I came across a study on black pepper that suggests that using it in over 0.3% of the diet can reduce eggshell quality, and it cites another study as saying over 0.6% garlic in the diet decreased productivity. Unfortunately, it's hard to read because English is not the authors' first language...

Actually, I'm curious why I don't hear people talking about thyme more often, because I see more commercially made antimicrobial cleaning products with essential oil of thyme than oregano. And, yes, essential oils are much different than using the whole herb. Whole herbs are much less...

Oh, here's another specifically on use in (broiler) chickens, saying essential oils worked as well as the "growth promoting antibiotics" in getting their test chickens fattened up for the slaughter...

A couple of scientific reviews on oregano's antimicrobial properties. There is plenty of research on this. The problem with natural antimicrobials is they aren't very long acting. The antibiotics we use against diseases, especially the once or twice daily dosage forms, are much, much more...