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I'm sorry to hear that your girl is not doing so good and her crop may be impacting again. Well done for flushing the incision. Personally I would have left the outer wound open and just closed the crop. Are you sure you removed the whole impaction during the surgery? It may be that some of it travelled to her gizzard and that is also impacted in which case there is nothing else you can do or perhaps, if you have not removed the bedding material that she was eating, she has been ingesting more of it.
I agree that many crop issues are related to reproductive disorders which cause the digestive tract to get stopped back, particularly in older birds but if you removed fibrous material from the crop then that may be the root cause as it was with my Vippy. Unfortunately with her she simply had a predisposition to eat straw/hay. She was fine and recovered amazingly quickly whilst she was kept in an environment where she had no access to bedding (I kept her on incontinence pads or newspaper), but the moment I put her back in the pen, the very first thing she did was eat a piece of straw.... literally within seconds of me letting go of her. That is not normal behaviour but clearly something she felt compelled to do and sadly it eventually led to her demise. I think a crop bra is quite different to trying to applying a bandage and it may be worth making one and trying it. They are very simple to construct and since you have done the most difficult bit regarding the surgery it seems little extra effort to make and fit one.
 

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