Can my chicken eat too much?

[Hawaiianhunnie]

i just got a rooster yesterday and I'm newer to chickens, all my hens have no problem free feeding and foraging for food. Well I put 1/2 cup a food in the drop pen in a where I'm keeping the rooster while he adjust and he ate everything! In one sitting! His crop is so big, is it possible for them to over stuff themselves? I witheld food this morning figuring I'd give him time to digest what he had and I'd give him a smaller portion tonigh after work but his crop look even fuller then it was yesterday! Im assuming he ate whatever food he could find on the ground in the pen from the very last chicken I was intergrating. What should I do? I dont want him to blow up, because literally I feel like he will eat until he does.

 

[sassysarah]

No I don't think so. Usually they stop when They have had enough

 

[Hawaiianhunnie]

No I don't think so. Usually they stop when They have had enough

He is so full that he throws up with the slightest pressure on his crop

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

T

He is so full that he throws up with the slightest pressure on his crop

then dont touch his crop?


Gary

 

[Hawaiianhunnie]

T

then dont touch his crop?


Gary

I don't play with his crop but when I pick him up it's kind of inevitable. I pick him up to take him out of the pen to forage and I have to catch him to put him back in at bedtime

 

[Hawaiianhunnie]

T

then dont touch his crop?


Gary

I'm not planning on playing with it I just want to know if it's safe to continue feeding him free feed style if he continued to eat like that.

 

[TalkALittle]

Is he a meat bird breed by chance? They will eat pretty much non-stop if you let them.

 

[Akrnaf2]

It could be suffering from impacted crop!
Read this
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...d-sour-crops-prevention-and-treatments.67194/

 

[Rosenwinkel]

i just got a rooster yesterday and I'm newer to chickens, all my hens have no problem free feeding and foraging for food. Well I put 1/2 cup a food in the drop pen in a where I'm keeping the rooster while he adjust and he ate everything! In one sitting! His crop is so big, is it possible for them to over stuff themselves? I witheld food this morning figuring I'd give him time to digest what he had and I'd give him a smaller portion tonigh after work but his crop look even fuller then it was yesterday! Im assuming he ate whatever food he could find on the ground in the pen from the very last chicken I was intergrating. What should I do? I dont want him to blow up, because literally I feel like he will eat until he does.

1/2 cup of food for a large rooster is no problem. Measure out 1/3 a lb and that is what a rooster will eat easily. Chickens will not over eat. He should be able to go into his coop at night by himself.