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If they aren't eating, no, the crops will be empty. If you are seeing them eat, they should have something in their crops. Feel just to the right side of the keel bone (breast bone) on the chicken's right side of the chest wall. Sometimes the bulge will be somewhere in the middle of the chest...

Even if the crops are empty, the oil may reach an impacted gizzard and clear that out. Impacted gizzard will lead to starvation since it can't process food since it's full. Did you read the article I linked to? You need to monitor these crops, and that means checking them all at night and...

The comb will heal. Put Blu-kote on it so the others won't peck at it. The neck movements do signal crop issues. And yes, if these chickens are eating a lot of long-stemmed grass, it's possible for more than one to have impacted crops. Just as it hurts nothing to treat for coccidiosis if you...