Making a crop bra for a hen with pendulous crop

[HollyWoozle]

Great, thanks for the info!

 

[Blue Raptor]

@azygous
Would a mask work as a crop bra?

 

[azygous]

It might. Try it. But it may not stay on very well, though. It also needs to support the crop firmly so it's raised high enough for the contents in the crop to drain. You will know if it's working if, come morning, the crop is empty.

 

[Blue Raptor]

It might. Try it. But it may not stay on very well, though. It also needs to support the crop firmly so it's raised high enough for the contents in the crop to drain. You will know if it's working if, come morning, the crop is empty.

Ok I’ll try.

 

[azygous]

Update: This is in reference to the elderly hen I previously made the crop bra for. Lilith is now twelve years old, and she's old and tired. (Like me.) For the past three weeks, she's been tired and listless. I gave up on the crop bra because it didn't seem to make a difference. Her crop has been full and lumpy but never sour or impacted. What it is, I've discovered, is slow and tired like she and I. So, I've been periodically giving her brief crop massages throughout the day, perhaps three or four. It takes maybe 45 seconds each.

After each massage, Lilith has become energized. She immediately feels like eating. Due to this, her food intake has increased and her energy level has also increased. She has gone from barely alive to a hen who is now coming off her lounging cushion and stepping out of the run to join the other chickens in competing for treat toss.

To sum it up, if you have a chicken with a chronic crop issue, give this a try. Pick up your chicken and do a gentle massage of the crop. It takes less than one minute. This, I believe, will rejuvenate the crop and improve function. While it may not cure a chronic crop disorder, it will improve it, and your chicken will feel much better than they did before. Best of all, it's simple, easy, non-toxic, and doesn't cost any money.

 

[qwigoqwaga]

Do you sell these? Our chicken's crop is so big right now that every design we've tried slips down and none of us are crafty enough to sew.

 

[azygous]

No, I don't sell crop bras, but I know that mypetchicken.com sells them.

 

[Nicole2845]

I bought a crop bra for Eliza, that darn little problem girl, and out it on her today. I don’t think it pulls the crop up enough, so I will definitely put in an insert in a couple of days if it doesn’t seem to be doing it’s job. Thanks, as usual!!

 

[Ravenfeather]

This is a great thread, thank you! I appreciate there not being any laughing going on. I have an easter egger, just two years old that is having pendulous crop issues. Massaging helps her, but I need to let her out in the run with the others, so this push up easy on and off pattern is SO HELPFUL!

 

[Marion Cooper]

Interesting! I like the white leopard print -- it blends in with her feathers.
Also, wow, twelve years! That's amazing!

Lilith is twelve and just began wearing the bra a few days ago. She's been tending toward this pendulous crop for about a year, and it's just now become a problem.

I'm happy to report that the push-up insert did the trick. Her crop was much less full this morning, and Lilith was in much better spirits.

She's been wearing it all the time and doesn't mind it, so I'll keep it on her for this time being and see how it goes.

Hi I have a crop bra on order and won’t be here for a few days so I have made one. It looks fine but she is doing the neck movements more than ever. Can you help?