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       Impacted, Slow and Sour Crops Their Prevention and Treatment
       By: Angela Fore Date: March 10, 2018, 3:58 pm
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       Great article from Backyard Chickens on crop issues and their
       treatments.
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       Re: Impacted, Slow and Sour Crops Their Prevention and Treatment
       By: Travis Rayner Date: March 12, 2018, 10:02 am
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       Good info.  Personally, I always cringe when I hear some say
       after cutting the grass they threw the clippings into the
       chicken pen.  The problem with that is that the chicken has no
       way to break the grass into small pieces before ingesting.
       Typically (if there is such a thing with chickens...), they
       snatch/peck/break off small pieces of grass, leaves, flowers,
       etc.  These small pieces normally do not create a problem.  But
       when they have long pieces of cut grass and eat them, there is
       always the potential for them to become entangled in the crop
       and that can lead to a number of problems, including death if
       not corrected.
       My advice is to avoid through them cut grass.  For me...better
       safe than sorry.
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       Re: Impacted, Slow and Sour Crops Their Prevention and Treatment
       By: Angela Fore Date: March 12, 2018, 10:38 am
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       [quote author=Travis Rayner link=topic=267.msg587#msg587
       date=1520866928]
       Good info.  Personally, I always cringe when I hear some say
       after cutting the grass they threw the clippings into the
       chicken pen.  The problem with that is that the chicken has no
       way to break the grass into small pieces before ingesting.
       Typically (if there is such a thing with chickens...), they
       snatch/peck/break off small pieces of grass, leaves, flowers,
       etc.  These small pieces normally do not create a problem.  But
       when they have long pieces of cut grass and eat them, there is
       always the potential for them to become entangled in the crop
       and that can lead to a number of problems, including death if
       not corrected.
       My advice is to avoid through them cut grass.  For me...better
       safe than sorry.
       [/quote]I agree, that was one of my first lessons when I got
       started with chickens, an impacted crop with 4" long pieces of
       grass!
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