So glad to hear your Buckeye girl is doing better. Yeah...I've had to apologize many times for massaging a crop, though there have been *some* times they'll settle in on my lap and let me spend some time doing it.
Thought I'd share that since my last post (a few weeks ago now) we've been using...
My 2 Bielefelder hens also developed static crop/pendulous crop at 9 months. They were survivors of a mountain lion attack when they were 8 weeks old and we suspect the trauma may have thrown things off for them (as a possible factor).
Anyhow, as new chicken keepers, it took a while to grasp...