Poops! Yes!Yes I think that is all true. And if you think about it, must be true or she wouldn't be alive.
Her crop is very weird. It isn't blocked - it is like her whole GI system just isn't working (which is why I am obsessed with poop). I can more-or-less empty her crop with some massage and lifting it up. But then if she moves or I stop pressing it, all the corn comes rushing back in. I actually (of course) looked into this and it turns out chickens are known to have food move the wrong way back into the crop!
And on the subject of poop - last night she had two modest but nice looking poops and another one when she was outside with me and her Hooligan friends this afternoon.



I know so little about this, but was curious to read about B6 deficiency contributing to "gizzard erosion" (don't know if she has that, but if her gizzard isn't working right, could that be why?) and seeing the bit about leg maturation and crippling.
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...ltry/vitamin-deficiencies-in-poultry#v3348035
Gizzard erosion has been noted in vitamin B6–deficient chicks. It can be prevented by inclusion of 1% taurocholic acid in the diet, leading to the speculation that pyridoxine is involved in taurine synthesis and is important for gizzard integrity. In pyridoxine deficiency, collagen maturation is incomplete, suggesting that this vitamin is essential for integrity of the connective tissue matrix. A chronic deficiency can result in perosis, with one leg usually being crippled and one or both middle toes bent inward at the first joint.
There's an adenovirus that actually causes gizzard erosion itself, but there's nothing about associated leg weakness.