Well I know this will sound odd, but you can wrap her in a towel to keep her secure and so she won't fly away and cut open the area where her crop is, the chickens don't see to feel this, and then pull out any long strands of grass, it doesn't need to be sewed up, but for the next 24 hours give her soft food like you have been giving her with some vitamins (like Poly-vi-sol with NO iron) Hope this helped
<---- a chicken procedure on Impacted Crop, it was done 10 months ago so its pretty recent.
That's not true! Chickens do feel pain why do you think so many chickens do not fully recover from this surgery? It's very painful and sometimes they never recover from the shock and trauma. Anything with a nervous system feels pain. I wouldn't want someone cutting me open without a local anesthetic. Also the incision DOES need to be closed by either super glue or sutures.
