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[007Sean]

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anyone ever seen this before???? Fluid filled and stinky. Dotted white coturnix male???? No signs of illness

Never seen anything like it before.....I have no idea what the 'ell it is? looks like a bladder but with the exception of ostriches birds don't have bladders!

 

[007Sean]

Could it be water belly?? Like chickens get? Super weird!!

'Water belly' or Ascites is a condition of abnormally high blood pressure between the heart and lungs (pulmonary hypertension) leading to heart failure, increased blood pressure in the veins, and excessive build-up of fluid in the liver which leaks into body cavity. There is no membrane holding the fluids, (like in the pic) the fluids are just loose in the abdominal cavity.

 

[FloorCandy]

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anyone ever seen this before???? Fluid filled and stinky. Dotted white coturnix male???? No signs of illness

The only guess I have is some kind of infected mass since you said it’s stinky. Did you cull it and find it coincidentally or was it ill and you culled and found it?

IMO maybe post it in the general forum area for illness and hope someone has seen it in a different type of bird. It’s crazy looking tho! It looks like there’s clear goo and something else in the center, did you break it and see if the center is more solid? It looks like some kind of gel alien was trying to morph into a quail lol.

 

[kurby22]

The only guess I have is some kind of infected mass since you said it’s stinky. Did you cull it and find it coincidentally or was it ill and you culled and found it?

IMO maybe post it in the general forum area for illness and hope someone has seen it in a different type of bird. It’s crazy looking tho! It looks like there’s clear goo and something else in the center, did you break it and see if the center is more solid? It looks like some kind of gel alien was trying to morph into a quail lol.

Haha it does sort of look like a gel alien thing

 

[muddy75]

Never seen anything like it before.....I have no idea what the 'ell it is? looks like a bladder but with the exception of ostriches birds don't have bladders!

My only idea was maybe a deformed kidney??????

 

[muddy75]

The only guess I have is some kind of infected mass since you said it’s stinky. Did you cull it and find it coincidentally or was it ill and you culled and found it?

IMO maybe post it in the general forum area for illness and hope someone has seen it in a different type of bird. It’s crazy looking tho! It looks like there’s clear goo and something else in the center, did you break it and see if the center is more solid? It looks like some kind of gel alien was trying to morph into a quail lol.

It was clear fluid and stinky more in the sense of urine than infection. We were just processing to decrease numbers and this was one of the unlucky 20.

 

[vall]

It was clear fluid and stinky more in the sense of urine than infection. We were just processing to decrease numbers and this was one of the unlucky 20.

Did you post in any other forum? I wonder if anyone has seen that in a chicken. Was the belly distended before you cut it open? Male or female? The only thing I've pulled out that large was a tumor and it looked nothing like this.

 

[Nabiki]

For people who have wanted something like I have for my quail, I found something with the same kind of construction, but a bit bigger and tall enough to walk into.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/producers-pride-universal-pen-lcpen-2?cm_vc=-10005

 

[muddy75]

Did you post in any other forum? I wonder if anyone has seen that in a chicken. Was the belly distended before you cut it open? Male or female? The only thing I've pulled out that large was a tumor and it looked nothing like this.

I have only posted it here so far……I may post in a different forum but most of the quail/gamebird peeps are here. I believe it was a male. Definitely recessive white coturnix (probably from my jumbo hatch)……So +/- 1 year old

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

For quail housing, I made the "mistake" of buying a set of three battery cages, thinking they'd be good for short-term housing. (seemed reasonable, here the link: 3 quail cages) They were way too short, even for the quail they're designed for. I've since turned two of them into functional housing with good quail real estate.

I removed the original top, flipped the bottom to the top, then cut a ceiling access hatch strong enough to support forty or so pounds. The mixing tub secured to the open bottom creates a deep sawdust/leaf pool for the birds. With the access hatch, I can reach in to get eggs or clean. This one is attached to the coop with the slide-in dividers so if I need to do a deep clean I can confine them to the roofed side. The walking planks are waterproof vinyl flooring, which I find easier to work with and durable.

Most importantly, the birds like it.