What is this thing?

[chickengeorgeto]

... It’s on her right side, but it was so big that it took up both sides. I have given her some plain yogurt and cooked egg yolk and water wit ACV. Hildegard fell asleep on my while she was perched on my fingers, laying on her back. When she woke up she pooped twice and climbed onto Scott’s shoulder and then chased our cat around.

I will wager a dime against a dough-nut that what you are seeing is your chicken's crop or craw, a.k.a. the 1st of two stomachs that all chickens have. Your Isa Brown sounds too full of its self for there to be much wrong with it. If the lactic acid in yogurt. and the acidic acid in ACV doesn't kill your chick then nothing likely will.

I direct your attention to the chick in the Purina add in the right hand border and its bulging crop.

 

[Jamie Molihan]

Went to check on my chicks this morning and everyone had a nice flat crop, except Hildegard, she looks like she is smuggle fruit under her feathers. My poor girl, I may have to take her to the vet because I just don’t have enough experience or confidence to help her in my own. I was so upset yesterday that I started crying because I am afraid she is going to die. What is unusual to me is that from everything I have read and been to,d she should be acting different, but she is still just as curious and full of herself as ever.

 

[Flockandfowl46]

Ok here's the deal I am by no means a veterinarian...keep this in mind plz when I worked for a avian vet as a tech I only saw this once and I'm not saying that's what this is but a bird came in with a hernia per say in its crop and good kept building up in this portion of the crop and could not come out so it basically began to sour and rot in the herniated potion of the crop without surgery the said bird would have died without surgery and antibiotics but we are talking about a zoo Animal worth thousands of dollars

 

[Jamie Molihan]

Ok here's the deal I am by no means a veterinarian...keep this in mind plz when I worked for a avian vet as a tech I only saw this once and I'm not saying that's what this is but a bird came in with a hernia per say in its crop and good kept building up in this portion of the crop and could not come out so it basically began to sour and rot in the herniated potion of the crop without surgery the said bird would have died without surgery and antibiotics but we are talking about a zoo Animal worth thousands of dollars

Oh my gosh, ok, I am going to make a vet appointment. I live right in the middle of Cleveland, I wonder if I should find a country vet that is used to this kind of thing. Thankyou so much for the info.