Onions crop

In September 2014 we noticed that Onions crop was swinging (like a fat persons belly). We left her for a bit as it didn't seem to bother her. Plus Buffy was our main concern at that point. After a few more months it was still pretty large and wasn't emptying at night. She had also stopped laying. Reading online posts I read about impacted and sour crop.

Our girls aren't the friendlist and run when you go near. I think it's because we got them at point of lay and haven't spent as much time with them as we would like due to having a new addition to the family. So the next task was to investigate further but first we had to catch her and that was a task in itself.

To me it didn't feel hard, more gritty so not impacted. Her breath didn't smell bad so not sour. We had no idea so off to the vets we went.

On inspection the vet agreed it wasn't impacted or sour. He said he was happy to give her minor surgery by going down her throat to investigate but she could die. As she was happy and it wasn't bothering her we agreed to just leave her and keep an eye. We now only feed her on layers pellets and the odd vegetation treat rather than daily as before. 

Suddenly in March we had 3 spontaneous eggs but that was it, none since.