One of my 7 chickens has a HUGE lumpy thing waggeling around the neck

[lester]

There is a fluid like waggeling lumpy thing around the neck/chest area on one of my hens. What is it and what do I do about it? Does it effect the eggs? Is it contagious?

 

[gameboygal12]

do you have a picture of it?

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Sounds like she had a big breakfast and drank alot of water.
Her crop is full.

 

[equine chick]

It's probally a full crop, check on it later to see if it is gone.

 

[lester]

It's been there for several days and now she is scratching at it from the side.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

And your sure its not her crop?
Is it still there in the morning before she eats?

If it is her crop, she may be bound up.

 

[Kajunbanty]

She has a impacted crop, I have one that keeps getting that problem over and over. I have done everything I know to do to prevent it but she will eat anything that comes across her path.