Young Olive Egger may be eating too much?

[Thebirdsandthetrees]

Hi all,

I did search for this but couldn’t come up with anything on here so I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere.

I have an almost one year old olive egger who is athletic, lays every single day, has tons of energy and is all around a terrific gal.
However, every single day, her crop is FULL at the end of the night. All the chickens crops are full at night like they are supposed to be but hers is insanely hard and huge. Unlike the rest of the ‘full’ crops in the coop which seem normal full - if that makes sense.

Every morning she is empty and ready to rock. So I know it isn’t impacted or sour or anything.

What I am wondering is that even though right now as a young chicken, she can handle this sort of eating fine but what happens when she gets older? I feel like I can predict we will have pendulous crop issues possibly? Or maybe I am just paranoid! Any recommendations? Or just some general comfort that someone else has had this happen and they live a healthy long life? I can’t imagine how I’d keep her from eating so much because I have 7 other chickens that share the food dispenser.

Thank you for any advice/comfort!

Sincerely,

Loving Helicopter Chicken Keeper

 

[nuthatched]

What do you feed?
Some birds have bigger crops than other, o wouldn't worry yet.

 

[Thebirdsandthetrees]

What do you feed?
Some birds have bigger crops than other, o wouldn't worry yet.

Layer pellets and when I let them free range, they’re eating clover and bugs and such. Sometimes healthy food scraps. But I only have one chicken with the perceived issue. The rest are completely normal. I will try not to worry! Thank you!