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Hi, we have incubated three quail broods in Winter, Spring and Summer. Late Summer brood due next week. Incubated chickens in Spring and just hatching a hen-incubated brood today-tomorrow. In our experience small excursions from the desirable temperature and humidity range in those last days...

Perhaps this may be what is happening. We have been seeing a large gas sac appear near the base of the neck-chest on our juvenile and adult Coturnix quail. They can go a whole week with it before invariably dying. I did a post-mortem on one and discovered the sac had decomposing feed in it...

Hi folks, I'm not new to chicken care and raising but somewhat rusty having decided to get into self-sufficiency in my retirement some 40 years after leaving my family farm. Learning lots of new things daily and absolutely enjoying the challenges and company of raising our Australorp chickens...

We have been seeing this gas sac appear near the base of the neck-chest on our juvenile and adult Coturnix quail. They can go a whole week with it before invariably dying. I did a post-mortem on one and discovered the sac had decomposing feed in it and the gas was from the decomposition...