Okay, it's been a couple of days, and her crop has gone up and down in size. I've continued to give her yogurt and bread soaked in oil. The thing is, she and my other two RIRs are all kind of pigs. They'll eat pellets out of my hand like they've never been fed in their lives. Now all three of them have big crops at night, smaller but still squishy in the morning. The other two I have (a black sex-link and an americauna) don't show any signs of puffy crop, but they also don't eat as much as the RIRs. Well, the black sex-link does, but not the little one. Again, they are all in good spirits, eating and scratching and roosting and pooping, and yelling at me because I haven't let them out in the yard since I noticed Caesar's crop the other day. So are RIRs notorious pigs, and I should just expect full crops? I was giving them table scraps, and letting them free range in the yard a bit each day, but, as I said, I haven't since I first noticed this. Emphasis on "notice" btw. It's possible the crops have been this way longer, and I just didn't feel them. Anyhow, I'd like to stop worrying about my girls all the time, since they seem otherwise healthy and are laying regularly. Within reason, of course. And I'd like to go back to giving them a few treats, because they are giving me the business every time I show up at the pen empty handed.
