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The fibrous fruits and greens can be harder to grind and digest, so I would have grit available to her in case she needs it. There may be some already in her gizzard from before she was injured which has held her over. Very hard to say how long it lasts since it depends on it's size, what it's actually made up of, and what she's eating. My soil is very sandy with very little rock of adequate size for grit, so I always have it out in separate feeders. Impacted gizzards are not good to deal with, so I'd rather do all I can to try to prevent it. I would try to make sure she's getting adequate protein and not too watered down with too much of the other stuff, but making sure she eats is important, and the 20% all flock is good, and good that she's eating it willingly. I feed all flock all year round, I just have oystershell for calcium available in separate feeders (as well as some for grit) for those that need it. I have 4 roosters and very mixed ages of birds, some fairly old, so that works better for me, and those that don't need the extra calcium don't have to eat it.
 
Thank you, she has grit now and a new bigger place to hang out. She's been scratching around and preening, and overall acting fairly normal. I set a 2x4 in there to see if she would roost but she still is laying down at night. The sore on her breastbone is still there, mostly unchanged in appearance but maybe a little bit bigger. I'm going to rig up a more elevated roost to see if she would go for that, and hopefully with more space now she will be doing less laying down during the day. She's also making these new quiet sort of happy cooing sounds I haven't heard from her before, and also a new happy chatter when I refreshed her food this morning :love

The wound is still significant, and looks largely unchanged to me over the last several days. It's still mostly solid black on the inside. I've tried to very gently do a bit of debriding the last two days but didn't really get anything off. I might get braver the next couple days and try a little harder, it does not seem to bother her at all. Overall tho I think we are just going to take it slow and keep up the routine. The hard swelling around it I do think has gone down a bit.

Attaching a pic of her in her new house this morning, and in her going outside net covered capsule to spend a few minutes with her flock mates and get some fresh air yesterday.
 

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