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    Impacted crop, sour crop???? What exactly am I dealing with? *UPDATE*

    Quote: New Egg, so sorry your girl didn't make it. I too noticed the large but mushy crop in the mornings, didn't seem to have much in it. I did notice that after a week on the yogurt and bananas, the crop seemed to slowly return to a normal size. She has been eating the same as the other...
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    Impacted crop, sour crop???? What exactly am I dealing with? *UPDATE*

    Just curious, but a friend who has helped me get started with barnyard fowl, thought it might not be good for a bird's crop/ or gizzard, to offer them bread. Maybe some other folks have heard the same thing. Since I finished with a week of yogurt with smashed bananas, gently massaging the...
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    Impacted crop, sour crop???? What exactly am I dealing with? *UPDATE*

    Having just gone through this myself for the first time, this is what worked for me. I've only got 4 birds but the 1.5 yr old cochin got an impacted crop and it was the size of a baseball. Here is what I did. I cleaned out the chicken house, removed all straw bedding, put paving sand on...
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