Blind quail chick not growing

[abroot]

This is my first time hatching and raising quail. All of my chicks except 1, which was born blind (without eyes). I didn't want to cull it yet since I thought it would maybe be able to see or learn to adapt in the future but so far it's been 1 week in and I still hand feed the chick as it never learned to eat or drink on its own. what I also discovered is that the other chicks are now triple the size of the blind quail (they all have feathers now and the blind one is still fluffy), and I'm assuming that it's not eating as much as they are b/c I can't feed it as frequently? Either way, I would like to know whether culling would be the humane thing to do as it seems the quality of the chicks life is in decline or whether this growth defect is being caused by separate factors.

 

[Nabiki]

A blind chick will never get big. They can't really find the food or water, so it will probably be more humane to cull it.

 

[muddy75]

You can attempt to grow out as a pet or until butcher size but as @Nabiki said, it’s very difficult

 

[neo71665]

Not trying to be rude but ya fighting against nature. You can raise it but its gonna be very very labor intensive for you

Sometimes culling an animal is the better thing to do for the animal.

 

[abroot]

This is my first time hatching and raising quail. All of my chicks except 1, which was born blind (without eyes). I didn't want to cull it yet since I thought it would maybe be able to see or learn to adapt in the future but so far it's been 1 week in and I still hand feed the chick as it never learned to eat or drink on its own. what I also discovered is that the other chicks are now triple the size of the blind quail (they all have feathers now and the blind one is still fluffy), and I'm assuming that it's not eating as much as they are b/c I can't feed it as frequently? Either way, I would like to know whether culling would be the humane thing to do as it seems the quality of the chicks life is in decline or whether this growth defect is being caused by separate factors.

UPDATE: The chick died the night before I was going to cull

 

[Pandaisy]

UPDATE: The chick died the night before I was going to cull

So sorry to hear that. I raised a partially blind quail and it was hard to teach it to eat and drink. I believe you did everything you could to make it feel save and comfortable.