Chicken is the correct t weight but very bony

[Emrosenagel]

Hello,

I have a chicken that’s been having crop issues for a few months now. She eats, poops, lays and acts pretty normal, but her crop rarely empties entirely. My issues is she weighs roughly around 2.10 to 3lbs, except I can feel all her bones. She is a Cochin bantam, which I believe are supposed to weight less than that (1.5 for hens, if I’m not mistaken). It just isn’t adding up how she can weigh more than what she’s supposed to but feel like she’s wasting away. Any ideas?

 

[nuthatched]

What's her diet? Have you ever wormed her?

 

[Emrosenagel]

What's her diet? Have you ever wormed her?

She has no worms or any parasites, no bacterial infections. Just had a fecal test done yesterday.
As for diet, she will very rarely eat chicken feed. I don’t know why, but she would rather eat dirt and rocks and grass (and treats, obviously). She eats it on occasion but certainly not like the other chickens. It’s a mix between grubbly farms later feed and purine flock raiser. Not mixed, she just has access to both.

 

[nuthatched]

She has no worms or any parasites, no bacterial infections. Just had a fecal test done yesterday.
As for diet, she will very rarely eat chicken feed. I don’t know why, but she would rather eat dirt and rocks and grass (and treats, obviously). She eats it on occasion but certainly not like the other chickens. It’s a mix between grubbly farms later feed and purine flock raiser. Not mixed, she just has access to both.

Is she being blocked from the feeders by the others? I'd try giving her a mash with the feed every day for a few weeks.

 

[Emrosenagel]

Is she being blocked from the feeders by the others? I'd try giving her a mash with the feed every day for a few weeks.

No, she isn’t blocked as far as I can tell. Nobody picks on her, but she is separated right now because of the crop issue. I’m just trying to figure out the weight thing.