Flock Master, we didn't notice any signs of illness beforehand. Yesterday after we found dead birds, we noticed the others had ruffled feathers and were droopy. We feed them fresh, clean 24% chick feed and they were eating and drinking normally up until the day before we found any dead. If...
Thank you all for the info. I hate that I didn't do my research before putting the little guys in the chicken house in the first place. We are going to try again, but build the quail a home of their own far from the chickens.
We moved our 13 bobwhite quail chicks into their "wire-bottomed apartment" in our chickenhouse a week or so ago. They were doing wonderfully until this morning when we found two dead. This afternoon three more were dead. Some of the remaining have ruffled feathers, and one is on it's side...