If your not planning on incubating or selling fertile eggs then I would recommend to get another female quail as sometimes the males can get a bit overly randy with the females and stress them out a bit.
Thanks for all the great ideas. I made a chicken seat but the chick just kept on falling out. I tried to make sure they were eating and drinking, but unfortunately they have just died. I tried to make sure that they were comfortable and they seemed to have died peacefully.
i think that the balance problem is something to do with a specific leg as they are always hesitant to use that leg and only stand on it for a short amount of time
I have recently incubated some quail eggs and they have all now hatched. However, one of the chicks is quite a lot smaller than the others and seems to have problems with balancing. As well as this, they spend lots of time sleeping and when they try to eat they often miss and end up pecking at...
I know that this thread hasn't been used for a while (14 years!) but I am having a similar problem with a week old-ish quail that doesn't seem to be as big as the others. They have not be injured in any way so i was wondering what else could cause this?
I have separated her from the bevy and put her in a smaller cage overnight. She has not got any worse but I'm feeding her a mix of spinach and egg yolk for vitamin E and selenium
Just in case anyone is seeing this in the future the chick died quietly in the box. Probably due to death, when I picked it up and checked for a heart beat there was a popping sound and snot came out of its nose.
Just in case anyone is seeing this in the future the chick died quietly in the box. Probably due to death, when I picked it up and checked for a heart beat there was a popping sound and snot came out of its nose.
One of my quail babies is only one day old and is not moving. It just keeps on rolling on its side because its not stable. It also seems to have laboured breathing, but its hard to tell. When I put it up to my ear to hear it was making a popping sound. I tried to give it water to drink and food...
One of my quail babies is only one day old and is not moving. It just keeps on rolling on its side because its not stable. It also seems to have laboured breathing, but its hard to tell. When I put it up to my ear to hear it was making a popping sound. I tried to give it water to drink and food...
I have a loud, cheeping baby quail that is newly hatched and thought it might be because they feel lonely. Only 2 eggs have hatched because of a heating problem in the incubator and one of the chicks is really weak. The one that is not weak cheeps really loudly until I check on them. I thought...