Birds Have Died, What To Do

[BarnyardChaos]

It appears my partner made this account to create this thread, I said she could use my account. She did not manage to cool them within 2 hours and it was very hot therefore I don't see us eating them.

I arranged for a specialist to come out, she was very fast to respond and has taken some of the birds for testing. Her preliminary results suggested the deaths were possibly caused by avian flu and heightened temperatures. 22 of the 23 adults I kept in breeding pens have passed. I know very little about bird flu in quail but will be talking in depth with her about this.

It is a horrible day here and appears our 80+ chicks will be taken. This just feels so unfair.

Oh my goodness. I am just speechless!!!!!!!!!! How awful!!!

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I am so sorry for your loss! One or two, meh, it sucks but it's the nature of keeping fowl. But ALL OF THEM??? Over 100 birds??? I can't even imagine.

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

I am so sorry for your loss! One or two, meh, it sucks but it's the nature of keeping fowl. But ALL OF THEM??? Over 100 birds??? I can't even imagine.

How it has affected birds kept strictly inside I do not understand either.

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

My heart goes out to you... Tearing up as I type.

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

So, most my birds got taken. I've been left with the last surviving female adult who is apparently completely clean, and one of my groups of chicks. They consist of 20x 3 week old chicks. The rest of my birds have tested positive and have been taken. This whole process has been horrible, painful and mightily expensive.

The positives are I have some survivors and I have about 30-40 eggs due to hatch over the next two days which I have been OK'd to keep. I still don't understand what happened or how and to be honest I'm so mentally drained I am not even sure what specific type of disease they had. They said it was likely spread either through our clothing, a wild bird that was being nosy or something else, whichever way it was, it was essentially very bad timing/luck.

Trying to stay positive but really miss my breeding group, had some very important birds in it.. T-wrecks, Ptera, Billie Jr, my SSEs.. will miss them all. My lone survivor was one of the one unnamed birds too.. I must find one for her

 

[BarnyardChaos]

So, most my birds got taken. I've been left with the last surviving female adult who is apparently completely clean, and one of my groups of chicks. They consist of 20x 3 week old chicks. The rest of my birds have tested positive and have been taken. This whole process has been horrible, painful and mightily expensive.

The positives are I have some survivors and I have about 30-40 eggs due to hatch over the next two days which I have been OK'd to keep. I still don't understand what happened or how and to be honest I'm so mentally drained I am not even sure what specific type of disease they had. They said it was likely spread either through our clothing, a wild bird that was being nosy or something else, whichever way it was, it was essentially very bad timing/luck.

Trying to stay positive but really miss my breeding group, had some very important birds in it.. T-wrecks, Ptera, Billie Jr, my SSEs.. will miss them all. My lone survivor was one of the one unnamed birds too.. I must find one for her

Thank you for the update. I hope this never happens to you again, and that ALL of your eggs hatch without incident.
It's trite, I know, but name her "Lucky". Hugs to you and your remaining birds.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

It appears my partner made this account to create this thread, I said she could use my account. She did not manage to cool them within 2 hours and it was very hot therefore I don't see us eating them.

I arranged for a specialist to come out, she was very fast to respond and has taken some of the birds for testing. Her preliminary results suggested the deaths were possibly caused by avian flu and heightened temperatures. 22 of the 23 adults I kept in breeding pens have passed. I know very little about bird flu in quail but will be talking in depth with her about this.

It is a horrible day here and appears our 80+ chicks will be taken. This just feels so unfair.

That's so sad. I'm very sorry

I am so sorry for your loss! One or two, meh, it sucks but it's the nature of keeping fowl. But ALL OF THEM??? Over 100 birds??? I can't even imagine.

If avian flu is in a flock usually all the birds are killed, even healthy ones. @BrandonsQuails is lucky they didn't kill them all. Again very sorry Brandon

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

So, most my birds got taken. I've been left with the last surviving female adult who is apparently completely clean, and one of my groups of chicks. They consist of 20x 3 week old chicks. The rest of my birds have tested positive and have been taken. This whole process has been horrible, painful and mightily expensive.

The positives are I have some survivors and I have about 30-40 eggs due to hatch over the next two days which I have been OK'd to keep. I still don't understand what happened or how and to be honest I'm so mentally drained I am not even sure what specific type of disease they had. They said it was likely spread either through our clothing, a wild bird that was being nosy or something else, whichever way it was, it was essentially very bad timing/luck.

Trying to stay positive but really miss my breeding group, had some very important birds in it.. T-wrecks, Ptera, Billie Jr, my SSEs.. will miss them all. My lone survivor was one of the one unnamed birds too.. I must find one for her

She is very lucky, sending hugs to you and your birds. May the unfortunate ones rest in peace