My male cournix quail has been sneezing and the lump seems to be giving discomfort, he's well in himself very lively and is drinking and eating just fine but the lump and the sneezing concerns me.
Vets nearby don't take poultry or any kinds of birds unfortunately.
One of my females feathers have started to turn black including her face, the front part of her body has got an orange tint to it like a male would but she is in fact a female any ideas? (Cournix quail
The 3 pictures of the darker quail is the quail I'm concerned about and the normal looking...
My quail chick recently hatched a few days ago with curled feet, we've been maintaining them to become straight like the other chicks and teaching him how to walk with leg exercises, whilst he trys to walk he falls over to his back a lot, lying down with his belly showing the other quails fall...
Quail need proper environment and lots of room to run around in. It seems to me you have improper care for your quail please consider rehoming him as of your attempt to put him in the wild is extremely concerning.
I do have the right feed for them but they wasn't eating it so I added some seeds that quail can eat, after a few hrs they're now on the right food source they either was confused or just not hungry
They've started eating now just took a few training, I have pellets mixed with seed the pellets have plenty of protein for them and cut up so it can fit in their mouths!
I've put it on! And he seems to be getting better at standing up now but he keeps straighting his back and tumbling over, anyway I could teach him to lean more forwards like the rest of the quails?
I've got 3 hatched quails and it's been about 20hrs I cannot get them to eat or drink, I've tried putting them when the mother but she doesn't seem to keen on them and just ignores them and she even went to peck one but stopped her before she could and got them away from her.
I'm worried about...
My baby quail has curled feet and is struggling to get up and walk
I've watched some YouTube videos and the most showed is putting cardboard under his feet and positioning them to the correct spot and finishing it with surgical type or vet tape, I've tried it but doesn't seem to be working just...
He's finally out but had to help him during zipping process as the membrane was somewhat dry making it difficult for him to continue zipping, I sprayed then before they started pipping. Read that you cannot spray them once they start to pip so I couldn't make it easier for the quail to do it's self