Fought a crop grass impaction for two weeks and it’s been gone for three days. I let her have access to grass a little more each day. She was digesting everything well the last three days so today I let her out and noticed her obsessively eating grass again. She eats her feed just fine and I’ve given her grit so she should be ok there. I thought maybe it’s bc she’s been penned up for two weeks and just needs some time to catch up so to speak. By 4pm I looked around the yard to make sure she wasn’t pooping grass again and sure enough she is. She isn’t eating grass here and there like a normal hen. She seems obsessive about it like she can’t get enough. This all started when she began to lay for the year. I’m almost to the point of getting an xray of her gizzard to rule out any foreign objects. The only other strange thing I’ve noticed is she occasionally has yellow urates. Out of 10 stools or so overnight maybe two are like that. The rest are white. Any suggestions or theories on why she’s acting like this? I’m afraid if she doesn’t stop I’m going to have to move her house and run over concrete. Also she shivers a lot. She never did this before. It stops after a while. She loves to be held so it’s not that shes scared. I’ll attach a pic of her stools today.
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