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After being fine all weekend, this hen had another ball of mostly liquid at what seems like the top of her crop when she went to roost this evening. She was craning her neck to adjust her crop and although the ball wasn't very big, she was clearly uncomfortable. I gave her a tiny massage and it...

This hen is much improved this morning. Maybe those white chunks were causing the problem, whatever they are. Fingers crossed she keeps that crop moving and can get through her molt ... it's proving to be a tough one for my hens this year.

@Wyorp Rock - any thoughts on my first two posts above and those poop pics? Turns out my newly discovered vet clinic who is willing to see chickens doesn't do fecal floats, so I'm back to shooting in the dark. I kept this hen isolated today and fed only egg and moistened pellets and she...

Her breathing is normal.

I agree! But something is off with her crop and those bits in her poop are abnormal.

Poop pics below from this morning. There's some weird bits in there - and her molt is obvious. She's only eating layer pellet and I gave her a bit of hard boiled egg yesterday afternoon. She ranges in a fairly large run with lots of different vegetation but I'm not sure what the round bits might...

As described in a separate post, I have one younger hen who has been struggling with a slow crop for coming up 2 weeks during a molt. A trip to the vet last weekend resulted in no diagnosis of impacted crop but curiosity from the vet as to whether a virus that I think took 3 hens from my flock...