PITSNPEEPS
In the Brooder
I noticed that a common thread to impacted crop seems to be hay or grass. Can a chicken get impacted crop if they don't eat either of those? My girls are in a coop with a course sand mix as recommended in another thread I found helpful, are fed crumble with a daily handful of scratch in the morning and they always have water available. I have never wormed them but I have also never seen any indication of worms when I clean the sand every weekend. I noticed a couple days ago that CeCe had a hard golf ball size mass in her crop but she seems to be acting and eating/drinking normal (she is such a pig!). In reading this thread I plan on going to my feed store to pick up wormed since I have four youngsters that will be moving into the coop in a couple weeks, but I am concerned about the mass. Help please!