impacted crop in 2 week old chicks?

froggyphore

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Sep 20, 2019
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unfortunately due my phones poor focus and weird lighting I'm unable to get proper photos. :(

3 of my chicks have large crops - about the size of a grape. not nearly as bad as the examples you see on here but still a bit concerning. they're all acting quite normal, eating drinking & running around, and they haven't done any of the typical weird behaviors like open mouthed gagging, heavy breathing or swinging their heads. atleast one of them is pooping normally and only developed the lump in the past 1-3 hours, so i'm hopeful that they're just stuffed.

i gently massaged them a few times and they haven't vomited or acted hurt by it. on the bald spot from their mareks vaccine i can see the bits of food through the skin, but i could see those a few days ago as well. when i massage the crop i can feel the soggy grains of crumble and can mush them around a little. they seem to bulge to the right more. should i do anything more or just wait to see if its okay by tomorrow? they been fed chick crumble and got a bit of grit from a short trip to my greenhouse yesterday, but they didn't eat anything like piece of plants or debris.

thanks for any advice :)
 
You can try taking away food/water tonight and then check first thing in the morning and their crops should be empty. Then, put their food and water right back after checking them. If their crops are empty at that point, they just had a really good meal :)
 

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