Ahhhhhh! 13 Dead And More Counting!!!! Help!!!

[Whitehouse Quail]

We hatched about 40/100 quail in our Hovabaor. They hatched fine, but about three days after the hatch, some started dying mysteriously. But, this has happened before, but we thought it was a temperature malfunction. They are all running around the cage like normal, and they have clean food and water available at all times. The feed isn't medicated, so I was thinking that antibitoic would help in the water. Any advice?

 

[siroiszoo]

Seems to me you should take one to the vet to find out what they died from so you can better address the problem. Any Agricultural colleges around you?

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

Not really. I could bring it to an msu extension office; they could send it off to be tested, but that may take to long, and the others would be dead.

 

[siroiszoo]

You are probably searching already but here is what came up when I did a search through the Emergency/Disease section of this forum while specifying Quail.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/se...-8859-1&q=baby+quail+are+dying&sa=Search#1365

Maybe you could find something in here while awaiting someone to respond who has knowledge in this area.

Hope you can find a solution in time!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

I lost a few out of this last batch, also (they finished hatching three or four days ago). Batch before that I didn't lose any - I think it's a humidity/temp thing, personally.

Our summer here has been so weird - cold then hotter than blazes, then humid, then not. I'm having a harder time keeping the incubators stable, so they fluctuate a lot. (I finally turned off the last bator for the summer yesterday

)

The ones who didn't mysteriously kick off, however, are doing fine, now - it was just the first day or three where I lost any. That, more than anything, makes me believe it was an incubation thing.

meri