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  1. KGQuail24

    Best type of winter waterer

    I keep quail so our setup is relatively small, but I use a half-gallon bucket with nipple attachments. For the last 2 winters I've used a submersible fish tank heater, like this...
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    Quail double eye injury -recovery hope?

    Great! If you've had to treat a bird with a similar injury, how quickly did they recover and rejoin the flock?
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    Quail double eye injury -recovery hope?

    Can you use Neosporin?
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    Quail double eye injury -recovery hope?

    Hi everyone, I have 5 month-old coturnix hens in a backyard flock of 6. They've been together peacefully since the same hatch and have been excellent layers all summer. Unfortunately,a severe bullying incident occured Thursday night (it's now Sunday), and one of the hens had both eyes severely...
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    Quail poop -is this normal?

    The younger 6 continue to lay daily and look great! I have no more weird looking poops like that. Is that a normal type of thing? How often does intestinal shedding occur? In 15 months with my first flock I never saw that, but this group has left these in spurts. My oldest bird who was at...
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    Quail poop -is this normal?

    Photos included of my drop tray. Not sure what to make of the squiggly poos, especially one very yellow one. They're highly gelatinous, for what that's worth. I'm hoping some of you can help diagnose. I have 6 young and 1 one year-old coturnix hens, all of whom have been laying daily with the...
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    Poop Analysis, please!

    Cool, thanks. I appreciate your taking the time to share your opinion. Now that the Corid's done I just sanitized the waterer and decided to put in a probiotic/vitamin, to help balance their tummies. I'm keeping everything as clean and dry as I can. They look like such happy birds! Hopefully the...
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    Poop Analysis, please!

    @Wyorp Rock @007Sean Thank you both for replying. I've attached pictures from just this morning showing the offending droppings, and the happy looking birds. I have had birds get ill in the past and I've seen the ruffled feathers and withdrawing to a corner and all that, but these birds are the...
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    Poop Analysis, please!

  10. KGQuail24

    Poop Analysis, please!

    Hi! Sorry, just seeing that you made this reply. The birds are all acting perfectly well, thankfully. The little ones growing quickly, plenty of eating, drinking, bathing, and all those delightful birdy things. My one older bird continues to lay every day. They're the happiest bunch I've had...
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    Poop Analysis, please!

    I'm glad I did start Corid yesterday afternoon - today there are a few birds giving me that very yellow, foamy poo we hate to see, in addition to more examples of what was identified as possible intestinal shedding. I think they all came to me with cocci (hopefully not anything worse). In...
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    Poop Analysis, please!

    Got it! I suspected this. I have never seen intestinal shedding - is this normal? How often might quail do this? But assuming it might be cocci, I can start corid tonight. Thank you so much!
  13. KGQuail24

    What's wrong with my quail?

    Update: 5/6 birds in this flock eventually succumbed to unidentified illness with occasional diarrhea being the only objective symptom. I was fastidious about hygeine and offering free choice calcium. I turned off any supplemental lighting to give more rest. But by March 30, only one bird was...
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    Poop Analysis, please!

    I purchased 6 coturnix hens yesterday from a (NPIP) breeder I haven't used before, all between 3-6 weeks of age. All acting healthy, and for the most part the droppings are the round, brown, white-capped birdy poops you'd expect, but I'm seeing some dodgy poos too and would very much appreciate...
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    What's wrong with my quail?

    Yep, thanks. I am curious what it was, but in my state, the backyard bird necropsy fee at the only lab I can find is double what I originally paid for my entire flock of 6, so it doesn't make any sense. I'm not breeding or selling; they're more like pets. I will just continue to take the best...
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    What's wrong with my quail?

    Update: the bird I had my eye on, whom I was convinced was recovering, who looked good and ate mealworms out of my hand yesterday, died in her sleep last night. (!) I'm rather shocked, honestly. I got 2 good eggs (plus the soft one) from the other 4 birds yesterday. All the rest look really good...
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    What's wrong with my quail?

    Thanks for weighing in - I appreciate it!
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    What's wrong with my quail?

    Update: all 5 hens look pretty much normal - eating, drinking, foraging, everyone interested in snacks and doing normal quail things. Since the last update, I finished a full week of the Recover 911 water additive, then several days of plain water or apple cider vinegar water, and now back on a...
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    What's wrong with my quail?

    Update: the bird in question is behaving more normally in many ways, getting out and walking around more, and having poos that look more normal. However, she still has half-closed looking eyes a lot of the time and still less energetic. I have seen her eating her kibble and drinking water...
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    What's wrong with my quail?

    I did not get a picture of it, unfortunately. It was a full-size membrane with a very thin layer of shell on it. No yolk inside, just a little white. Rather like a deflated balloon with a coating of paint on it - very strange. Yesterday I got a "poultry recover 911" water additive at Tractor...
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