Impacted Crop, Egg Bound too?

I had a 6 months old hen who had impacted crop. I took her off her food for a day and gave her coconut oil then massaged her crop about 10 minutes later. I did this twice a day. She barely had anything to eat for the next several days and I gave her access to water and her crop went back to normal. She was laying up until then and I don't think she's laying right now and haven't figured out why and it's been about a month. Good luck!
 
UPDATE
For the entire week I was off (2 weeks ago) Carolina did much better. Her crop was empty each morning and she was back to eating. Then on Tuesday of this past week she was late coming out of the coop again, with a doughy crop. UGH! I was able to massage it before I left and coax a bit of the "miracle solution" down her throat before I left (cinnamon, ginger, chili powder, lemon juice, baking soda and water). Each day this week it was the same - coax solution down throat in morning and evening, separate from the rest, feed only eggs in the evening. By Friday it was almost gone, but it was there in a big way this morning.

Kathy, I am assuming you're going to tell me I need to tube "feed" her water... am I right? I haven't learned how to do this yet (and I would have this week but I was the only one home each day and Carolina is NOT a docile chicken. I really needed my farm-boy husband or chicken-vet-assistant daughter to help.

Also, something else occured to me. It's time to worm. I do it every spring and fall and it's time... this afternoon I noticed 2 other girls with very loose stools which is usually my heads-up that it's time. Could worms be causing all of Carolina's issues?
 

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