Did my chicken hack up her crop?

[Everose]

So on my way to milk the goats this morning I found what I think is a crop. It was just laying there on the ground, a few chickens tried to peck it, and it has what looks like partially digested grass in it, also there's a fly. I don't know for sure that it's a crop because when we butcher meat birds their crops are always empty and this little bag is full. There aren't any dead chickens, we haven't culled any (no cats were able to pull parts out of the trash) and from what I can see nobody is missing. I'll do a head count tonight when they're roosting. Nobody is acting sick either.

Can a chicken lose their crop? Is this for sure a crop? And will a chicken be okay without it?

Here's pics

 

[sourland]

A chicken can't 'hack up' its crop. To me that looks like the stomach of a rabbit that was killed by a raptor.

 

[Painted Calls]

Yuck! *Gags* I've only ever had little tiny dead mice and moles end up on my doorstep.

You're lucky! Mine leaves me the stomachs and heads.

 

[Everose]

You're lucky! Mine leaves me the stomachs and heads.

That sends shivers up my spine! Do the cats have some kind of cult they're apart of? One where scaring owners with body parts and glaring at them plotting their demise is standard protocol

 

[Everose]

Now that I zoom in on it, I can see what looks like cat hair? Maybe one of them found some leftovers?

 

[Painted Calls]

I clean these off my porch on a regular basis. Cat scraps.

 

[Everose]

I clean these off my porch on a regular basis. Cat scraps.

Yuck! *Gags* I've only ever had little tiny dead mice and moles end up on my doorstep.

 

[Everose]

Yes they do.

and they've conspired to keep us from suspecting by being mean to each other when we're around!

I have four cats, the two sisters miss America and Pumpkin beat the crap out of each other and my precious Izzy. And now Izzy and tippy live together in my room! It's all a big plot to get me when my back is turned!

 

[Everose]

A chicken can't 'hack up' its crop. To me that looks like the stomach of a rabbit that was killed by a raptor.

And yet no fur? My rabbits aren't in the habit of eating flies either. I guess it's possible but don't aerial predators eat their prey in trees or on site?

 

[Everose]

Now that I think about it...my cat Izzy eats rabbits whole. We have two bigger all outdoor cats as well, so maybe one of them got a bigger bunny and tore it up. But I keep coming back to the fact that there wasn't any fur (which there would be, I've had dogs and cats eat rabbits in the past) and any bunny that they would've eaten would be huge, male rabbits go sterile in hot temps and we've been pretty warm here so there wouldn't be very many juveniles that one of our cats could've eaten. Predators that eat rabbits eat them whole for the most part, (might leave behind some bones) but there's only the stomach left (if that's what it is). Why would an animal eat everything but the stomach?