➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[JacinLarkwell]

He seems okay now, he zips and zooms all over with the other 10, but I know he might have problems when he gets older. I'll see what TSC has tomorrow morning and get something if they have it.

 

[007Sean]

I had a chick that I just noticed has wry neck. Runs around fine but their head is at a 90 degree angle pretty much. What can I do to help it or is it just a lost cause?

Usually, I just cull...I have never had one recover from wry neck. Seems to work with chicken chicks but not with gamebirds. Most peeps recommend PolyViSol.
I have had several that lived for 5 to 10 years with wry neck but it didn't seem to be a very joyful life for the birds.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Usually, I just cull...I have never had one recover from wry neck. Seems to work with chicken chicks but not with gamebirds. Most peeps recommend PolyViSol.
I have had several that lived for 5 to 10 years with wry neck but it didn't seem to be a very joyful life for the birds.

Alrighty thabks. I've decided I'll try the vitamins. Best case he gets better and I can keep him. Bad case I grow him out and then just butcher him. Worst case I just cull. I have people with reptiles that could use him at this size so he wouldn't go to waste.

I'm thankful though that no one condemned me on here for thinking I may cull him.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Absolutely... as a quail holder there are things, which need to be done.

I also do not condem quail pet holders, which cannot cull a bird. Even if my opinion is different.

This I love here on BYC... ppl do not condem, they just suggest.

This is way different on the german poultry forum, I am also registered.

A big ❤ to the BYC community!!!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Unfortunately this is the only animal forum I can go on that doesn't result in me being yelled at (fish forums are just cruel sometimes) but even then I have had some people admonish me for not being able to just cull a bird I've grown attached to. I don't want to cull anyone (unless they're mean and I've had it with them) but I also know living with your head at such a bad angle and not able.to eat and drink on your own is no way to live life

 

[Nabiki]

Okay. So do you think that the chick electrolytes and vitamins might help or would it honestly be better to just cull it now before it gets any older? I don't want it to suffer and I can't have any with this problem as adults since I won't be able to sell it if I move them along

The two wry necks that I've had don't seem to suffer at all. They can live perfectly normal lives, but I chose to let them get to eating size, then sent to freezer camp.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Okay thanks for that. I was a little bummed about all this last night because first I couldn't find the two chicks I had marked for sale (their marks wore off in the brooder and they look like every other bird now, just praying they're female so I don't keep the wrong male) and then I noticed this chick had problems. I'd prefer to keep it to butchering age so I at least get something from it

 

[RUNuts]

The two wry necks that I've had don't seem to suffer at all. They can live perfectly normal lives, but I chose to let them get to eating size, then sent to freezer camp.

Did they make full size? Mine were smaller than the others. Healthy, just smaller.

 

[Nabiki]

Did they make full size? Mine were smaller than the others. Healthy, just smaller.

They were a little smaller, but not much.

 

[FortCluck]

So the quail Jerky got ahold of is actually fully recovered. It’s wing fixed itself and it neck wound healed so you can’t even tell. It was fine when I caught it out in the chicken yard. It just wanted to get back in the aviary.

I went from 53 quail to 15 yesterday. My aviary looks empty, but I kept several of the scarlet quail. I did sell a few just repeat colors. The white quail from the first group went to a new home, I didn’t like the coloring. I kept a lot of Falb fee and pansy because who wouldn’t.

I’ll take pics of what I kept once DH gets home because my phone has decided it doesn’t want to take pics and crashes every time I try.