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Do you rely on the chickens picking up natural grit from your yard or do you provide store bought grit? When there are this many crop issues plaguing a flock, we must take a look at environmental factors. If the local soil is providing all the grit your chickens eat, could you do an experiment...

All the omens are bad. It does not offer much encouragement for the hoped recovery. When we reach this stage in treating for a crop disorder, having tried everything without any sign of improvement, we have to assume there's an underlying cause for the crop issue that itself is progressively...

Yes, reducing the liquid amount in the solution will be okay. Short tender grass is probably okay, but it can severely aggravate your hen's condition if she eats too much or there are tough longer stems being swallowed. That kind of material simply will not pass through a crop, normal or...

Regular chicken crumbles or pellets are fine for her to eat, but withhold any fibrous veggies or grass.

Chickens endure treatments and improve better when left with their flock. However, it's your call. If you would feel better keeping her crated to observe her and to make it easier to do these treatments, then by all means do it. She may have regular food and water between flushes. Let her drink...

When you get the feeding tube kit, here are instructions to tube. The solution is one teaspoon Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) in one-half cup warm water 2xday for three consecutive days. Tube all of the solution in. Provide food and water as usual in between. Space the treatments out by six to...

Trained vets we are not. So the crop surgery we do here at BYC doesn't involve altering the size of the crop, only making a small incision to remove the crop contents. Any chicken keeper would be able to do this simple surgery. Since this crop issue has been only going on for a few weeks, the...

She's a bosomy gal all right. To clarify, crop surgery is to empty out the contents, not take tucks in the crop sac to alter the size. Since the crop is moving in a fashion, I would suggest the Epsom salts crop flush. If there are yeast spores still in residence, the Magnesium sulfate will...