Impacted crop?

[KentuckyDuckMomma]

My girls are two months old and I’m just not sure how you can tell if she has an impacted crop or if this is normal. She acts normal but I’ve been told chickens don’t look sick until they just die.

She’s the only one that looks like this. Not great photos but I couldn’t keep her still. It’s like the size of very large golf ball and soft to the touch and bulging on one side

 

[KentuckyDuckMomma]

I was just holding her and slightly threw up on me? She’s using the bathroom normally

 

[KentuckyDuckMomma]

Here’s better photos

 

[Saveria]

If you checked late in the day her crop should feel full. It has most of the stuff she ate today in it. When you felt it, maybe you could feel some of her food in it, almost like bumps or similar to one of those stress balls they used to sell in the 90s? Check her in the morning, it should feel like a smaller ball with no food in it.

Golf ball is smaller than I would be concerned over. It should never feel like a water balloon or like there is air in there, that is sour crop. You will smell a weird smell when your nose is by her mouth.

 

[Holdthechicken]

I was worried about one of mine, and was told to feed her little cubes of coconut oil and massage the crop Down a bit. My chick had GORGED grit the first time I gave it to them so I had to watch him closer afterwards. Yours is older than mine was but the oil and massage worked, the next morning his crop had emptied.

 

[Saveria]

This seems to be the go-to article.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Does her crop stick out when she stands up straight? If she threw up on you something might be up. Were you massaging the crop when it happened?

 

[KentuckyDuckMomma]

This seems to be the go-to article.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...w-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/

Does her crop stick out when she stands up straight? If she threw up on you something might be up. Were you massaging the crop when it happened?

Yes

 

[Saveria]

Check to see if it smells strange when your nose is right near her beak. Also, check her crop in the morning to see if it is emptying properly.