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  1. Susan Skylark

    Insane amount of fat in quail

    If she’s not laying, fat accumulation on that high quality of a feed is normal. Quail are production animals, bred for centuries to lay eggs or grow muscle efficiently and when not producing they store the excess as fat. You’ve either got to drop the overall quality of the diet in non...
  2. Susan Skylark

    Hatching "Medicated" Eggs?

    Totally depends on drug class, most antiobiotics are not teratogenic (not an issue for gamete production or fetal development), while things like Lipitor are class X (totally an issue). Class A is fine, B is some risk, C is use with caution… Some have not been tested (which is why you aren’t...
  3. Susan Skylark

    Injury? Attack?

    Are there wounds on the neck or breast? Or is it blood from the mouth? Head/eye/tongue wounds can bleed a lot (think nose bleed!) and a little blood makes a big mess. Check the tongue, skin under the feathers, nostrils for dried blood. Wounds to the skin suggest rodents. No wounds but blood...
  4. Susan Skylark

    Help! Grey goo in quail’s eye that isn’t going away!

    Mycoplasma synoviae is a possibility, it likes joints and te respiratory system, the eye goop is a symptom of an infection in the tear duct plus or minus some conjunctivitis and yes eye infections in birds (and cats) are often respiratory in origin (think sinus infection). Good news is it...
  5. Susan Skylark

    Rooster & Hen Hatching

    I’ve never had a 50/50 hatch (coturnix quail) overall stats are about that but for individual hatches 4/4 female, 5/6 male, 17/23 female…not uncommon to have it heavily one way or the other but it levels out over time, and unless you are incubating alligators your incubation conditions can’t...
  6. Susan Skylark

    Anyone else expecting hatching on xmas day?

    Hopefully you don’t have a busy day! First hatches are always very exciting and utterly anxiety producing, especially on shipped, much anticipated eggs! If you don’t have a bunch of family or stuff going on, certainly could be fun, we are celebrating a birth after all, but if you have a hectic...
  7. Susan Skylark

    Checking embryos

    I don’t like the dark clumpy mass, usually means a dead embryo, especially if the egg is sloshy rather than oozy, also very light for day 8 (?). Sorry!
  8. Susan Skylark

    Egg turner problems

    I got a 50% hatch rate on home raised quail (90% normal) when my turner wasn’t working, expect higher embryonic death, dead in shell, maybe a deformed chick. You still get chicks but have more issues/lower hatch rates. Hand turning 3x a day is way better than a faulty turner, if I’m just...
  9. Susan Skylark

    X-Ray Egg What the heck

    Awesome radiograph, not awesome for you or your bird! DVM360 (magazine) has a yearly contest for coolest/weirdest x-rays, snakes that eat lightbulbs, dogs that swallow knives whole, and my favorite a pregnant dog with an inguinal hernia with pregnant uterus in the hernia (yes, a herniated...
  10. Susan Skylark

    Injured Quail

    A bonked bird will be stunned, wobbly, stiff, dead. A mouth breathing panting bird is hot, stressed or in respiratory distress.
  11. Susan Skylark

    Sudden death in chickens

    Get professional help asap, avian influenza or other highly contagious and lethal disease is likely. You’ll want a diagnostic lab to look at tissue from dead/sick birds. Lose the Corrid, these birds need healthy fluid intake and it isn’t coccidia. Good feed, clean water, fresh air, and...
  12. Susan Skylark

    Are celadon layers less reliable?

    Mine seem to require higher calcium levels and sometime produce a soft shell egg but the eggs are in general big and frequent, I’m actually hoping to have less celadon as I prefer the speckles but that’s not how my flock is trending, probably depends on line and genetics more than shell color...
  13. Susan Skylark

    Shipped Chick Poll

    I’m curious about your experience with stress in shipped chicks (GI, respiratory, etc), particularly your average rate of chick death and illness within 2 weeks of getting your birds? I’m talking average or overall, not one particular disaster shipment here.
  14. Susan Skylark

    lockdown, egg kicked

    Apparently you’ve never hatch quail, it is a regular soccer match!
  15. Susan Skylark

    I had to.

    Addict! (While I awkwardly glance at 10 two week old quail in my brooder, outdoor temp is sub zero this morning…).
  16. Susan Skylark

    Bump behind eye?

    I’d guess some sort of chronic sinus infection that spread to the inner ear, maybe a mycoplasma? Very hard to treat even with oral antibiotics, topical won’t touch it or home remedies. Mites are separate issue but immunocompromised birds are more prone to secondary issues. The bump might be...
  17. Susan Skylark

    Sexing and color help

    Lavender is an obscure color and I believe recessive, silver or Blau is way more common. Most of yours are Rosetta (heterozygous EB), the reddish brown ones. The black one is Tibetan (homozygous EB). The whitish one is a pearl (Italian fee). The two salt and pepper/white laced looking ones...
  18. Susan Skylark

    Day 7- anything?

    Try your phone light, my quail eggs do great but they are also tiny, haven’t tried bigger eggs so might not work. Is the red color from the light or shell color? Infertile eggs are usually green or yellow, red indicates blood (like shining it through your hand) which means development and...
  19. Susan Skylark

    Need help with Ai

    Selenium sourced from food is fine, just don’t dose him regularly with the mineral on its own, too much is toxic! I don’t think you can overdose vitamin E.
  20. Susan Skylark

    Beliefs

    Did have to laugh at this, apparently your hymnal isn’t written in five flats! I totally agree rhythm wise that older music is much more regular, but as someone who chords the bass cleft and plays the treble cleft by ear, some of the newer stuff is way easier to play, which is probably more a...
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