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    Quail suddenly unable to walk??

    Sounds like a solid possibility, especially absent any other symptoms or obvious signs of issue. Thank you for your insight! It’s always challenging to find specific quail info 😂
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    Quail suddenly unable to walk??

    Yes, poops and body conditions appear surprisingly normal. I’d worry more about the protein level if we hadn’t had the whole covey on the same feed for years without issue, but I suppose there are variations in feed production that could be an issue. I do have Fertrell poultry nutri-balancer...
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    Quail suddenly unable to walk??

    Beautiful, normal feet no sores or anything approaching bumble foot. Floor of aviary is a mix of pine shavings and sand (this has been the norm for them historically and nothing changed). Feed info is below - same feed we’ve always had them on (aside from as chicks where we use a 28-30%...
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    Quail suddenly unable to walk??

    I had a quail suddenly unable to walk a few weeks ago, it was otherwise fine. Eating, drinking, pooping normally. Nothing helped (vitamin/mineral/electrolyte in water, isolation), and we ended up culling b/c she didn’t improve. Hen was over a year old, on 20-21% protein from a local feed...
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    Sick quail? Or maybe starved 😭

    Yes, the poop on their tray and the few that were in the sand are almost all normal. A few slightly runnier ones, but overall typical quail turds.
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    Sick quail? Or maybe starved 😭

    Thank you. I did pull all the trees out (As much as my kids think the quail need to celebrate Christmas 😂🤦🏼‍♀️). Sandbox is out of the birds pen in question. All other birds from the same hatch have beautiful, age-appropriate body condition and are eating/drinking well today. Even the 3...
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    Sick quail? Or maybe starved 😭

    The one that died was dark brown diarrhea. The remaining 3 today are alternating between normal greenish with a little white poops and some slightly looser brownish poops. Thankfully these 3 don’t seem to have full blown diarrhea. Those antibiotics are vet prescribed, correct? There aren’t...
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    Sick quail? Or maybe starved 😭

    They’re all the same age birds from the same hatch in this pen. 2 feeders.
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    Sick quail? Or maybe starved 😭

    I considered a necropsy but can’t do it myself - husband may be willing to do so - maybe looking at intestines/digestive tract to rule out UE? Pen set photo is the best pic I had. Waterers/feeders are on back wall, each pen has a supplemental calcium dish on the side (except the birds in...
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    Sick quail? Or maybe starved 😭

    I found one of my 5.5 week old Coturnix laying on its side in their cage and it looked dead. When I picked it up, it was alive but barely. I tried electrolytes and gentle warming, but it ended up dying last night. In observing them more closely, I noticed 3 other birds who just looked off -...
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    🎃🦇BYC's 2022 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along!🦇🎃

    Hoping my docile Coturnix roo can get his business done and I’ll have eggs to set then!
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    Celadon birds are total jerks? Common?

    We ended up culling heavily the past few days (we had Roos growing out and knew the time was coming) with the injuries that kept happening. Hopefully it was just a bad combo of birds.
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    Celadon birds are total jerks? Common?

    I have 16 celadons originally from Alchemist Farm hatching egg lines (had 17, but one hen went psycho and nearly killed 3 others, so she went to freezer camp already). I’m noticing that the most a-hole birds I have are from this line of celadons. They are mutilating each other constantly and...
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    Sudden change in flock behavior & aggression

    Well, I sat and watched and watched and realized the 1 too just wasn’t happy with his 6 females and was essentially terrorizing them by nearly constant mating attempts. A few larger hens were able to shake him off, but the slightly smaller ones ended up bald. We ended up culling this rooster...
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    Sudden change in flock behavior & aggression

    6 hens, 1 roo in the same pen (16 sq ft) and have been together literally since hatch. I’ve noticed the hens have been acting weird, agitated, and just unsettled this week and just found one today with an under eye injury that happened overnight. The ONLY change for them has been another...
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