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1.5/2 month old chick acts with neurological or crop issues

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Chirp chirp is about 1.5 months to 2 months old.. she just stared displaying this behavior a few days ago. She is not displaying any other symptoms. Feces is good, she has always smelled bad since she was tiny. Appetite is still good, keeps up with the other babies. She does seem more docile than usual. I’ve tried vomiting her yesterday and today. She does not do this for a little while afterwards. Or seems to happen when I massage her crops down low. It seems involuntary and out of her control.
Do you have any idea of what’s going on?
 
She could have a crop impaction. Be very careful to not vomit a chick, because she can choke to death. How does her crop feel—empty, full, hard, dough like or puffy/soft? Does it ever empty by morning? Check it first thing before she eats or drinks? Giving her a spoonful of chilled coconut oil, cut into small pieces may help soften the crop mass. Then massage the crop downward several times a day. Make sure that she constantly has access to water and granite chick grit. Grit helps their gizzard grind up grasses and foods other than chick feed. What are you feeding them?
 
She could have a crop impaction. Be very careful to not vomit a chick, because she can choke to death. How does her crop feel—empty, full, hard, dough like or puffy/soft? Does it ever empty by morning? Check it first thing before she eats or drinks? Giving her a spoonful of chilled coconut oil, cut into small pieces may help soften the crop mass. Then massage the crop downward several times a day. Make sure that she constantly has access to water and granite chick grit. Grit helps their gizzard grind up grasses and foods other than chick feed. What are you feeding them?
Thanks for replying.
Her crop feels firm but not hard. She is a naked neck and I could see the food going back up into her throat through her skin.
She is eating chick fed and foraging leaves.. nothing has grown yet, snow just melted last week. I did notice she was wearing sticks… and I do think she may have gotten into a bad bag of feed with green/yellow mold on it
 

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