What The Heck Is This??? Pics

[chickie<3]

I have to tell you..she has not changed in almost 2 months...she is acting fine...laying like a champ...happy..eating..playing. I do keep an eye on her and touch the bulge sometimes..but she seems fine other than that bulge...so until she tells me otherwise ... we are just going along as normal.

 

[X2Farm]

chickie<3 :

I have to tell you..she has not changed in almost 2 months...she is acting fine...laying like a champ...happy..eating..playing. I do keep an eye on her and touch the bulge sometimes..but she seems fine other than that bulge...so until she tells me otherwise ... we are just going along as normal.

I have 2 hatchery dark cornish, same as your girl. That seems to be how they look normally, no sour crop, nothing... completely normal, healthy chickens. Just wierd looking crop once its full of food

 

[Luvroos]

Are your pullets/ hens acting lifeless? If not then you should have nothing to worry about until they begin to!

Holding them upside down and making them vomit can not just give them pneumonia, crop infections, respiratory infections and also aspirate them if the remaining digesting foods fail to trinkle back down into the crop. The liquids that came from her mouth were her grains doing their thing in her crop before going through her body. After you made her vomit, the left over that did not come out of her mouth had caught the air, winds, germs, bacterias and all so obviously did not go back down as they were coming up, this could mean poison. I would never do this to a chicken unless I knew that they were literally choking on something.

If both of your girls were acting normal from the beginning maybe you should keep an eye on those buldges just to see if they eventually disappear on a daily basis and if so then you will both know that it were just a full crop! This also depends on the number in which they are regarding their peckng order, the highest in the flock will stuff their faces full until they look like they'd pop if you touch them.

Those soft spongy crops are most likely from their grains beginning to digest as they flow through out their systems since they do not go through out their bodies as they are eaten and placed into their crops.

Chickens can eat at least 2 full cups of food a day and their crops will appear to look like baseballs until digested.

As far as their chest feathers are concerned referencing the seperations down the middle this is normal for most all laying hens, roosters and chickens in general, it's simply where their feathers are met at the opposite angled direction and or that sharp breast bone!

I hope this helps!! FYI you can think about all the things that we people can't go through and compare yourselves to these chickens and maybe think twice before making any mistakes with them.