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Just want to give everyone an update on my hen that had the ginormous impacted crop. Last November, after two months of treatment and reaching a dead-end with surgery as the only option left, I decided to let the hen rejoin the flock and let nature take its course. She was so miserable eating...

Quote: I have, but there is no way I could do it myself. I'm squeamish just watching people get shots, let alone performing surgery.

Not so good. There's been absolutely no change to the plum-sized mass of a crop. I'm starting to wonder if she ate something plastic? She's still active and not sick, and does pass some waste every day. Although she walk funny, raising her legs really high, as if she knows something is...

Thank you thank you BWchicken!!!!! I will cut out the grit. And I will give her some mashed-up skinless tomatoes with some olive oil and mashed up egg. I'll let you know how it goes!

Quote: In the morning her crop is a hard mass that I can move around. It's definetely not like the other chickens' which is completley flat and empty. I'm going to do as you suggest and give her some scrambled eggs...she definitely needs some weight on her before the cold weather comes...

Almost one month ago, my 2-year-old RIR hen wound up with a severely impacted crop. We're talking draging-on-the-ground, hard-to-balance-on-the-perch big, although she never showed any signs of pain or illness. So I isolated her in a cage with no bedding and put her on a ACV-water diet for 48...