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Also, I have read that to help avoid sour crop you should limit the bread intake. I was feeding them a decent amount of scraps, including bread. I hate that my ignorance of this potential problem has caused the deaths of these 2 beloved birds, but hopefully I can learn what is necessary to avoid...

Thank you so much for the advice. As it turns out my second rooster died this afternoon. I do believe it was sour crop. I have made sure that I put out plenty of poultry grit (I wasnt before) to try to avoid any further problems with any others in the flock. I have felt the others' crops, and...

I posted yesterday about the sudden death of my Lakenvelder rooster, and today I have another rooster acting very lathargic. I did notice on my Lakenvelder that he had a large and mushy (not gritty) gullet. I felt the other chickens gullets and found them to be much smaller and gritty feeling...