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Are those cedar shavings? If so I’d switch to pine for quail and rodents, they can give off gases/smells that can be toxic to delicate lungs.

My runts only lived 3-5 days and never grew, in broiler chickens with Clostridium perfringens (necrotic enteritis) subclinical infections and those that survive it often suffer damage to the gut and don’t grow as well or gain weight resulting in economic loss if spread across enough birds, if it...

These are 5 day old chicks in the photo, everybody else has doubled or tripled in size including a runt and a wry neck and the last chick to hatch. The sick chicks just don’t grow, little muscle and no body fat on necropsy, food in the gi tract but they just don’t have anything left. I was...

The dark striped guy in the middle is my surviving iffy chick, you can see several other clutch mates that all hatched within 36 hours start to finish, they are 3-4 times his size, even the last to hatch is twice his size. Still a little draggy but alive, eating and not comatose, still not...

Feed is dry and well away from water, and water is in a bottle, dry bedding and fresh feed are added a couple times a day. Both incubator and brooder and accessories were cleaned, disinfected, and allowed to air dry between batches. Chicks are 72 hours old, meaning they are probably exposed in...

Update: one iffy chick doing a little better, still not out of the woods, euthanized the other. Everybody else happy and healthy.

Now 30 percent game bird starter, purina brand, but used up a small bag of something off Amazon I used for the first hatch until I could locate feed locally. had been grinding it the first few days which might be a risk factor. Also using an open waterer (small opening to prevent drowning) the...

My first hatch (now 4 weeks old) I lost one chick out of six on day 3, he was a little small and wasn’t growing like the others and was depressed for half a day before I found him dead. The others were fine, no blood or diarrhea, etc, just dead. I figured it was a congenital defect or failure...