Hi. That's so kind of you to check up on Butchie. She seems quite well -- still waking up each morning with an empty crop. I'm still feeding her mostly boiled egg, sweet potato, and quinoa with some tuna or sardines every few days. I add a tsp or so of aloe to her food once per day and a sprinkle of probiotic powder.
I briefly massage her abdomen once a day, she still expels some gas from her beak when I initially massage, but it's much less than before and her abdomen feels softer and smaller overall. I give her yeast buster if she seems more gassy.
I've been giving her a TBSP of quinoa or sweet potato with her protein for both breakfast and lunch for the past week. When she eats only protein, her energy really drops. The little bit of carbs helps her poop to be more solid as well. So I'm watching her carefully, especially the crop and lower belly, and she's handling a bit more carbs ok now.
I do notice that she takes naps periodically -- one in the late morning around 10am and in the afternoon around 4pm (all the chickens relax then, the weather has been very hot). But Butchie doesn't just relax, she goes fast asleep for about half an hour. She's not lethargic in between her naps, she is actually quite active and very chatty, so perhaps her body is just concentrating on healing.
She's been sleeping in the coop again for the past five days as well and seems fine with that. There's actually been all sorts of chicken changes over the past week: The 4 year old hen who brooded Butchie died very suddenly last Thursday. That hen (Cherie) had been laying very thin shelled eggs with a weak band around them since she went back to laying after hatching and brooding two cockerels. I'd been giving her supplemental calcium to try to strengthen the shells, but it seems she got a swift infection. She had no other symptoms. I saw her stagger and fall over, she was dead in seconds. I found a crushed and empty weak eggshell in the nesting box after she died.
Of all my chickens, Cherie was the most feral and never acclimated to being cared for by me. She went broody at least five times per year. And she brutally bullied Butchie and the less dominant cockerel she mothered. So while I respected her feral nature and loved her as one of my animals, she was difficult to like. She had four fabulous years of free roaming life, hatched and raised chicks, and died without long suffering. More importantly, none of the other chickens seem too upset about her passing.
Except one. The dominant cockerel, Paco, was very much Cherie's favorite. She actually fought and hurt the other named Lucio when he challenged Paco. After I buried Cherie, Paco was wandering around by himself and in the late afternoon managed to drown in a small pond where we keep fish. It's a total mystery. The dogs were with me in the kitchen. The pond is within earshot, I would have heard flapping. It's like he just slipped in and drowned. It was a very sad day for me, obviously. He was a very charming and bold cockerel with flashy plumage. But perhaps Lucio will prove to be the steadier of the two. He seems calmer and is coming out of his shell now that Cherie isn't pecking on him all the time. I was debating how to separate the cockerels, even preparing another roosting area, because the fights were getting serious. But in a tragic way, the issue resolved itself.
And... two of the younger hens are both broody and sitting on hopefully fertilized eggs. Tomorrow my neighbor is bringing me two healthy 8 month old pullets to increase my flock -- between the older hens and the broodies, I have no eggs!
But Butchie seems to be taking it all in stride. She still has Cleo and the dogs for familiar company and she seems to be doing well even with all of the changes.
So much can happen with chickens. It's also good for me to learn to deal with deaths. None of them will live forever. And just do the best I can to give them good lives in their time here.
Here she is, taking an afternoon rest in a cool spot in the kitchen.
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Thanks for the update on her and your flock! 
