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Thanks for the advice! She's a female. She doesn't seem to be aggressive, just skittish.I think it should be okay... If they fight then it will give me an excuse to start a bobwhite flock or something. Thanks again.

I apologize if this has been asked before. My father bought me a bobwhite, mistaking it for a coturnix. The lovely employees even called it a coturnix. I'm stuck with it now. Can they be safely kept with coturnix quail, or do I need to work something else out?

Thanks a bunch. Right now I'm 99% sure he has Aspergillosis. I have been researching it and so far it does not look as if there is much hope for him. My best bet is to try anti fungal medication and hope that it works, but according to research I have been doing, his illness is so far progressed...

I have a Tuxedo male that appears to be ill and has been getting worse over the last week. At first it started with his crow sounding a little bit weird and distorted, but I thought nothing of it. After it continued for a few days I thought it was rather strange, but nothing to worry about, so I...

I can definitely see your point. We don't breed our chickens, though, so in our case it was just saving a perfectly good layer hen, whom I am happy to say is doing quite well :)

Vegiecanner: I am sorry to hear that ): Thankfully I found an egg in her litter, so I know now that it is not egg binding. I also felt around for out-of-place eggs in her body, but found none. I am guessing (with absolutely no experience) that the hernia was from the stress of being held in an...

I tried to get a picture of her vent, but it is too blurry. The swelling has gone down but it is dark purple in color and still protruding in my direction (I'm not sure if this is normal, but I don't think it is.) Also, I was wondering if anyone can help me out with her toe. She got a piece of...

UPDATE: It seems like the large hernia-like glob has receded back into the vent, but her vent is very swollen and is pulsing. Anyone have an idea of what may be going on?

Hello, my female quail has a large read glob hanging out of her vent, I think it is a hernia. We saw it when we were holding her on her back to save her toe which has been injured, but it might have been there before. Does she have egg binding, a hernia, or what? What action should I take? It is...

Thanks for the advice guys. I tried putting a bandage on him several times in the last 38 hours and it refuses to stay on. Doesn't matter what I use, his feet are so small that it falls off. Fortunately he seems fine and is pretty active for just having part of a toe ripped off. He seems to be...

That's okay. We just put a bandage on him, and the bleeding stopped (Thank God). He's just resting now. Unfortunately I couldn't find any Neosporin.... hopefully it wont get infected. He looks pretty strong and alive still, just sleepy and probably in a state of shock. If anyone has any...

Or can I freeze it with a wart freezer chemical thing until the toes forms a blood clot? I think it IS still bleeding... would a wart freezer hurt the bird for some reason? Sorry Im asking so many questions, just want to be sure, but I do have a wart freezer...

Thanks, I put flour on it, I cant tell if it is still bleeding because there is blood everywhere.... Before I put corn meal (not starch) on it and it didnt help at all, I dont know why I didnt think of that.... Question, we're holding him upside down in a hand so he's supported, can it kill him...

Okay so I let my one and only house quail out and scooted my chair without looking, the chair took a chunk of toe off, there is blood everywhere. We are holding him sideways and applying pressure to the toe. It is unclear if he will live with all of the blood loss. What should I do?! I would...

Hello, thanks for the advice. I don't see any selenite or Selenium on the label. What I ended up doing was guessing and mixing honey, water, three drops of Poly Vi Sol, some egg yolk, 1/8 a tablet (maybe even less) of Selenium, and one full capsule of vitamin E. Sometimes I doubled the amount if...

I let one of my Coturnix roos out to roam around my house today and witnessed with my own eyes it gobbling down part of a popped balloon. Why it would think the balloon could possibly be food is beyond me. I feed them a lot so it could not have been because he was starving. Will it pass through...

Culled him today. He was doing fine until his eyes got infected (swollen, red, gross). I think it got infected because his flesh was dead under his eyes. Tried to prevent it with neosporin, didn't work. He was improving, started to try to walk right, and both his eyes fully opened, but I don't...

Hello, I have a leghorn chick who is one to two days old and is slowly developing wry neck. I have bought Poly Vi Sol, Selenium tablets and vitamin E liquid capsules, but I have no idea what to do with them, or what amounts to mix. Do I mix them all together? With what ratio? Do I dilute with...

Yes, they have vitamins in their water. It's actually parakeet liquid vitamins, but I've used it before and it has the same ingredients in it as other supplements. I ended up using honey in their water, they seem to do doing fine. I've never thought about using molasses- I'll have to look it up...

I was thinking of making a sugar water solution for some of my weaker chicks. Problem is, I'm out of sugar. I do have agave nectar, though- does anyone know if agave nectar will hurt chicks? It's kind of like honey, but way sweeter. It's natural as far as I can remember. I thought I remembered...