Some is still a little raw but he is responding well to the treatment and acts like a happy quail, scratching, eating, drinking, and doing the male quail call.
No, we got a bow tie (one of the three males we hatched, a golden (the injured and my fave male) and one with an arrow pattern. Then we got three females a dark and white pie bald, and two arrow patterns.
We have only a starter quail cage right now. It turned out we had three males in that cage with just three females. Needless to say, we now only have two. Letting one live for now until we see for sure how my injured boy does. (They are not together.)
He acts like theirs no injury at all. The injury has dried and clotted nicely. Getting daily treatments, is eating and drinking well, is not in a stressful area. It's safe, secluded, and quiet most the day. We had injured females to so they are also inside for some care, their nowhere nearly as...
Unfortunately that's not out of the question this time.... It is a last resort though. He is still very alert and we're keeping a close eye on him, but if he starts to go down hill we will do so.
So here's the story. Yesterday, I noticed one of my young male quail had an injury on it's head, a small one that had already scabbed over. I thought we only had two males so I took the other male I knew about out because we were sure that was the problem. But when I checked him this morning, I...