➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

Correction. Myshire shipped my eggs yesterday! @Texas Kiki what kind of quail do you like the most from the Myshire site?

Depends on the day. I can't make my mind up. Today it's the Pearls.

 

[Sara L]

My nicest male is a freaking jerk, and now that I have daughters I honestly might cull him even though he is half of my best pair . He has scalped my most valuable pullet, one I literally can't replace. There is half-dollar size of skull visible. I am sad. I am not even sure how to begin treating it and she's obviously in shock. I've got her separated and I'm giving her a heat lamp for a bit but I'm not sure what else I can do for her.

Keep her isolated and spray with vetrycin, morning and evening. As long as she keeps eating and drinking she should heal up.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Keep her isolated and spray with vetrycin, morning and evening. As long as she keeps eating and drinking she should heal up.

I'm all stocked on quick-clot and antibiotics of various forms, but didn't realize I had no spray and have never had a wound with this much surface area on a quail exposed before, only deep pecks that needed clotting but had low infection risk and I wanted to keep open. Would be unacceptable lack of oversight in horse days!

Hubby is searching for something acceptable locally now, otherwise might have to drive to a feed store in (one of the) valley(s).

Poor thing is totally disinterested in food and water right now but it also obviously just happened, the blood is still bright bright red. Hopefully by tonight she'll start to come around.

 

[CindyinSD]

Can you AI a quail? I’m assuming the white creamy foam of the males is semen... sounds to me like a q-tip might be preferable, but I guess it’s probably more complicated than that.

 

[Kiki]

Can you AI a quail? I’m assuming the white creamy foam of the males is semen... sounds to me like a q-tip might be preferable, but I guess it’s probably more complicated than that.

This might be a little on the nutty side.

 

[Sara L]

I'm all stocked on quick-clot and antibiotics of various forms, but didn't realize I had no spray and have never had a wound with this much surface area on a quail exposed before, only deep pecks that needed clotting but had low infection risk and I wanted to keep open. Would be unacceptable lack of oversight in horse days!

Hubby is searching for something acceptable locally now, otherwise might have to drive to a feed store in (one of the) valley(s).

Poor thing is totally disinterested in food and water right now but it also obviously just happened, the blood is still bright bright red. Hopefully by tonight she'll start to come around.

I'm sure you will find something that will work. I hope she makes it. My birds that had scalp injuries usually healed fine, although it sometimes took a long while for them to look normal again.

The ones I lost were the ones who didn't eat, or seemed to be in shock too long. You can feel her breast bone area and if she feels like she has meat there and she's eating she should be ok. If she just gets thinner and thinner and you can clearly feel the keel bone it's not a good sign.

Injured birds sometimes do better with dimmer light until the shock is gone, maybe make her zone a little more like twilight lighting?

 

[CoturnixComplex]

And the little jerk is covered in her blood! Bad avatar! He got split out for the moment too.

I'm kind of on the fence about this guy because I do select for aggressive fertility and part of that is aggressive mating tendencies. My birds are kept in really unnatural pens compared to some people's and I kind of have to just expect a certain amount of unnatural behavior there too. I'm tempted to try and rig up an area 2-3x the size of their current space just for this breeding group and see if that mellows them out.

He also was without ladies for a while because of the bumblefoot way back when (happy to report 100% healed and eliminated for a while now), so he's been pent up.

On the other hand, doing well in that confined space is also something I'm trying to select for, and I gave the little butt three hens at once to try and mitigate that and he still tore one up.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Can you AI a quail? I’m assuming the white creamy foam of the males is semen... sounds to me like a q-tip might be preferable, but I guess it’s probably more complicated than that.

I have done it with fish.

 

[Kiki]

I have done it with fish.

And just how is that done with fish?

 

[CoturnixComplex]

And just how is that done with fish?

It is helpful I literally had a guide for the species I was doing.

http://www.ctsa.org/files/publications/Lyretail6319619779998111681.pdf

Long story short, you knock them out, stimulate the male's bits, q-tip him, swirl it in a solution, and then pipette into the female.