Chicken help update

[Kk chickens]

So my chicken has been doing a lot better, she been a lot more active and has been acting like normal again, which is great, and I checked her poop and everything was normal, but i was checking her crop and it felt poky, as if she ate something really hard, i started to feel around my other chickens and the same thing, there crops felt like there was somthing stabing it, only 2 of my chickens did not have this problem, should I be concerned?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Like a nail or a screw, some kind of hardware like that? Can you get her to a vet? Has there been any building or construction going on around where the chickens are?

 

[Kk chickens]

Like a nail or a screw, some kind of hardware like that? Can you get her to a vet? Has there been any building or construction going on around where the chickens are?

There has been no construction that I know of and there's no vet that can care for chickens at all in my area

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I just think an x-ray might reveal what they have ingested. If they have indeed swallowed some kind of hardware like that, it can be very serious, even deadly. Let me tag some Educators for you. Before I do, how about when your coops were built? Could nails and such have fallen then?

@Eggcessive
@coach723
@Wyorp Rock

 

[Kk chickens]

I just think an x-ray might reveal what they have ingested. If they have indeed swallowed some kind of hardware like that, it can be very serious, even deadly. Let me tag some Educators for you. Before I do, how about when your coops were built? Could nails and such have fallen then?

@Eggcessive
@coach723
@Wyorp Rock[
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Ok, our coop was build a long time ago and my relative built it for me at his place. The only other thing that I could think of is that we had some horrible rain that knocked down some trash, but we immediately picked it up

 

[TioBollio]

So my chicken has been doing a lot better, she been a lot more active and has been acting like normal again, which is great, and I checked her poop and everything was normal, but i was checking her crop and it felt poky, as if she ate something really hard, i started to feel around my other chickens and the same thing, there crops felt like there was somthing stabing it, only 2 of my chickens did not have this problem, should I be concerned?

Just to clear the obvious before the calvary arrives, do they have access to straw bales or any hard stemmed mulch material?

 

[Kk chickens]

Just to clear the obvious before the calvary arrives, do they have access to straw bales or any hard stemmed mulch material?

They do have pieces of mulch in an area that is to big to consume, to my knowledge at least, there is pecan shells from a pecan tree near by

 

[StinkyAcres]

Do they feel like small rocks (grit)? It is normal for the crop to contain grit.

 

[Kk chickens]

Do they feel like small rocks (grit)? It is normal for the crop to contain grit.

It does feel kind of like small rocks but it is not normal for there crops to contain grit

 

[StinkyAcres]

It does feel kind of like small rocks but it is not normal for there crops to contain grit

It is normal. Grit goes through the crop on the way to the gizzard.