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Yes, she was awake during the whole thing. We wrapped her in a towel and covered her head with a ankle high cotton sock. She pretty much just laid there. She jumped a little on the first incision, and little toward the end (I think she was getting impatient), but other than that she was...

She's pecking at it and around it, like she is cleaning it or something. She pulled all the pin feathers around it, as if to keep the area clean. What's the experience with chickens pecking at their wounds, are they trying to care for it, or do they like tasting their own blood? I don't know...

Well, so far so good. She does keep pulling the dang skin open, didn't know whether to stitch it or what. I figured if I did she would pull the stitches out anyway. I think even if I skin stapled it she would pull them out. I had already glued it twice, found myself trying to reason with...

I used regular old crazy glue to close both crop and skin. In hind sight, I would have still used superglue on the crop, i don't think internal stitches would be good here, unless of course they were the dissolving kind. I would have using sterilized fishing line on the outer skin, she opened...

Apparently Well, she just kept eating and eating. There was that much in there and I had her separated with no food, only water for two days to see if it would go down. She had been like that for a while. It was straw mostly. I put it in their nest boxes because it getting down to 10 below...

Thank you. It actually was pretty easy once I got myself psyched up enough, and calmed my nerves. I had my game face on so to speak. The one that was removing the crop contents was my sister the nurse. Really, she is a nurse. Steve her fiance is also an EMT/Firefighter. So I had some...

The Video Is Ready! Yes, it was pretty tense for a while. Of course some light humor through the process helped. Surrounded by friends and family, there were 8 people in the room watching. So, here is the video. This is condensed into 6 odd minutes. It took a total of about 35 unedited...

Thanks for all the info. Yes, I think you are right about the food/water Purple. Also on the antibiotics. I haven't gotten any yet, and I probably won't unless she shows sign of infection, which is what my sister said too. Thanks for the praise, we are all in this together and if I can help...

I checked on "the patient" this morning, I have her cordoned off in the barn with a brooder lamp and towels on the ground. She was very alert and comb/wattles were nice and red. She was clucking normally, which was encouraging. There were also 3 small loose poops, so I know that things are...

Thank you all for the advice, she was getting to the point to where I need to do the operation or cull her since she is certainly not getting nourishment. I am sorry, I certainly care for animals, but I cannot spend $200 on chicken surgery. I decided to go ahead and do the surgery myself, I...

Thanks for the info. I am a little torn on what to do. I went out today and she seems to be the same. Seems to be acting normally though. One of my concerns was the length of a tweezer type tool to get to the bottom of the crop. I mean, if I am going to cut her open, I want to make sure I...

I noticed yesterday morning when I went out to feed the girls, that one had a gigantic ball in the front of her chest. I also noticed her cluck was very brash. I picked her up and had a look and felt her crop and it is the size of a baseball, maybe a little bigger. I remember hearing that deep...