Diagnose my chicken please

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Katbird01

Katbird01

In the Brooder
5 Years
Aug 17, 2014
65
3
43
Mississippi
I'm not sure where to start looking. I'm new to the whole raising chickens thing. We noticed today that one of our BO hens was standing apart from the others and all fluffed up. I picked her up and her crop is soft and spongy. I couldn't feel any food in it but we added some scratch to the pen and she pecked at it. We've moved her into the chicken tractor away from the other birds just in case.

Any ideas on where to start?
 
Might be sour crop. A sour crop will feel like a water balloon, and her breath will smell horrible. If it is not like that, it could also be pendulous crop. that is where the crop will hang way down, and swing from side to side. She most likely won't have much bad breath.
 
your welcome :) Curing it is hard, but not impossible. I have had some survive, and some not. Hope it goes well!
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I'll do that, Thanks CasportPony.

I went out there to massage her crop and nothing came out and it seems smaller than before. Could I have dislodged whatever was blocking it when I was first feeling around her crop? She even seems more active now. Hubby and I sat out and watched her for awhile and she was moving around and active.
 

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