Help! My Bobwhite quail chicks are dying and I don't know the cause. They look fine and an hour later when I check on them there will be a dead one. At first it seemed like normal chick mortality but something else is killing them now. I don't know the poultry terms so I will try to describe...
I just found one of my female bobwhites dead and I'm wondering if it was because she was laying too many eggs. I'm still pretty new to bobwhites but I know chickens can have "blow-outs"; I'm wondering if that's what this was. I found her in the nest box with 5 eggs; there was a little blood...