Are you sure it's a mass and not just a stuffed to the brim crop? I've never had a chicken with an impacted crop but have cared for a parrot with one. If it's a problem crop then when it's closer to empty you'll feel the mass in an otherwise empty crop.. For the parrot I fed it water with probiotics and a little oil, then massaged the crop. Then withheld feed to be sure it passed and emptied properly. Worked like a charm.but glad u gettin those blood suckers!!!
Oh this is beautiful! Luv it!
So have yall ever had a girl go broody and have crop issues.ay same time?
I noticed Bambi's crop was plucked clean from being broody...I'm trying to break her from it. Day 3
Then I noticed a hard mass where her crop is. I massaged it last night but still hard this morning. She's acting like normal broody otherwise.
I'm gonna go bring her in to the ICU in garage and monitor her water intake and poop and give her a docusate sodium 100mg per the article on BYC I just read.
But I wanted to see if this is par for the course for a broody in storing up so she can stay on nest.
Not hatching eggs at this time so no babies for gamma! God made it very clear and I thank @PopoMyers for sharing that voice of encouragement the other day which only reiterated what I had heard Him saying.
Thanks yall!
Did she have no access to food overnight?
Just seems so right... strange even.
