Distended Crop No Sour Smell

[SmallStep]

I have a pullet with a distended crop. It's soft and squishy. It makes gurgling sounds. I've emptied it several times on multiple days, and the liquid ejected doesn't smell sour. I've read the sour smell is pretty strong with sour crop. I've isolated her and am feeding her water with a tiny bit of baking soda and giving her starter grower mixed with some probiotic powder and some plain greek yogurt. I read that pullets need about 3 oz. a day, but I'm feeding small amounts, which she gobbles it down. I doubt I'll be able to get through the entire 3 oz.

She got poor nutrition for about 17 weeks because I didn't realize my starter/grower was old. I'd been assured it was new. Since she was the smallest, I took her into the garden when I worked there and she foraged for worms and even ate a few baby frogs. I wonder if between the bad feed and maybe letting her eat things her crop couldn't handle may have weakened that muscle. The other thing is that she seems to binge eat. I thought when the crop was full, they stop eating for a bit, but she keeps going. She is pooping and it's loose--diarrhea.

I read that some chickens just have a weak crop muscle and will always have a distended crop and there are slings for holding them. I can't see this as a sustainable practice, given that my birds have a fairly large free-range area. Any thoughts? Anything I'm not doing that I should be doing?

 

[Aapomp831]

Isolate her and remove food... only water for a day or two, preferably with crushed garlic in it.
If you are emptying the crop several times a day, that means it is impacted. Stop feeding her immediately, the food is not getting to the stomach and will ferment and turn into sour crop. After about 24 hours with no food, try again with plain Greek yogurt