Is this impacted crop behavior?

DfwChickenMama

In the Brooder
Jun 9, 2021
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Brought my bantam cosette in to clip her nails and she was doing this strange jerking head movement. Her crop felt very full and a bit hard and I wasn’t sure if this movement was her trying to unsuccessfully clear it? She was pooping some but a lot of it was really watery.

Never seen anything like this and couldn’t find any videos that resembled this behavior. I was hoping some of y’all more experienced chicken owners might have some insight, she’s got me real worried :(
 
The above treatments didn't clear my hen's impacted crop. We wound up having to perform surgery on the poor thing. She'd been eating sand... Surgery was successful.
 

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