Crop fill assessment Crop fill assessment is one of the measures of determining the comfort of the birds in the brooder. Crop fill assessment is when a poultry attendant or farmer massages the crop of a chick to determine whether the chicks have familiarized with the feed and water. Making a crop fill assessment helps us to judge appetite development in the chicks, health and to avoid a compromised growth rate. It also helps to improve flock growth rate uniformity, and productivity. With a poor crop fill, farmers experience high mortality, poor growth rate, more small and weak chicks. How is it done? You know, when you have just introduced chicks in the brooder, we give them clean water which contains glucose. So they have to go for about an hour without feed, but with good quality water that has glucose. After one hour, we then introduce feed, where we spread super starter pellets on the brooder paper for the chicks to start eating. After about 3 hours in the brooder,
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