Can calcium deficiency cause paralysis in button quail?

Any clue which is likelier? I can give preventive treatment to the others, I have nistatin left over... But that only treats candida. I don't have any of Maple's antibiotics left... I have the Cholal still, and lots of it, also Ornipural. But those will only treat liver damage if there is any, not the underlying causes.
No clue.
How many quail do you have left?
 
No clue.
How many quail do you have left?
4 adult buttons though they have their own cage separate from the chickens. 1 juvenile coturnix shares their cage. 1 adult coturnix, 1 juvenile, 4 kikiriki chicks and 4 silkie chicks share another cage. About 21 coturnix and 4 button eggs are hatching today (already pipped, no losses so far).
 
4 adult buttons though they have their own cage separate from the chickens. 1 juvenile coturnix shares their cage. 1 adult coturnix, 1 juvenile, 4 kikiriki chicks and 4 silkie chicks share another cage. About 21 coturnix and 4 button eggs are hatching today (already pipped, no losses so far).
No other quail are acting silly like this one was?
 
No other quail are acting silly like this one was?
No sign whatsoever... But then she wasn't showing any signs either until two days ago when she suddenly started to get leg paralysis :( I'm just putting off the necropsy but I know I have to, and soon... Gotta check her liver for white tumors...
 
No sign whatsoever... But then she wasn't showing any signs either until two days ago when she suddenly started to get leg paralysis :( I'm just putting off the necropsy but I know I have to, and soon... Gotta check her liver for white tumors...
If you do open her up please get clear photos.
 
Photos incoming. Warning they could be a little graphic.

I stopped once I got to her liver because A. I'm squeamish and B. I accidentally tore it trying to remove it :( but I *think* there's no sign of Marek's so it must have been something else. What, though?

What little I could see of her eyes after pulling back her eyelids looked normal.

Her skin looked smooth, normal and no sign even of the bird lice that have recently afflicted a couple of my chickens.

Very slight yellow crusting around nostrils.

Thick ropy saliva at the back of the beak (honestly could just be bc she's been dead about 24h though)

Heart looked normal to me, liver too. The rest I have no clue... Greenish... Cavity? Lump? In vent area. Could just be the intestines especially with the ToD, looked like an infected egg yolk you sometimes get when hatching eggs though. Only it wasn't.

No fluid, no horrid smells that I noticed.
 

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