Impacted Crop? or Heat Stroke?

[RachaelS]

Okay, have a girl that was 100% perfect today at 3:00. Then I got home at 7:00 pm to feed and she is not acting right. Kind of wobbles when she walks, was panting, hunched up, and just not as fast as she normally is, just picked her up. So I figured heat stroke and brought her inside. Her comb and wattles are all bright red, so that does not really go with heat stroke, but her crop felt really full. However, she is eating, when I fed them tonight, she ate a bunch sat and watched while she did it hoping to pin point what was wrong, so that could be why her crop was full.

So question, will a chicken with impacted crop eat? and if it was heat stroke why was her comb her normal bright red?

Edited to add: I massaged her crop and it moves around, feels solid but not hard.

 

[Alaskan]

I would make sure she cooled down...maybe dunk her feet in water, and then let all the chickens go to bed without any feed in the coop.

In the morning, when you let the chickens out, catch her before she can eat, and check her crop. If, first thing in the morning, with no feed all night, there is anything in her crop, then you can worry.