Egg bound Button Quail, may be prolapsing. In distress now.

[HeatherKellyB]

Thank you for the update @quailbird I'm definitely rooting for her. She'll be in my thoughts and prayers. Please keep us updated. She's been on my mind so much and I'm sure others here are the same. We all want the best for her.
She's lucky that you are so caring and doing everything you can for her. Bless you!

 

[quailbird]

Thank you for the update @quailbird I'm definitely rooting for her. She'll be in my thoughts and prayers. Please keep us updated. She's been on my mind so much and I'm sure others here are the same. We all want the best for her.
She's lucky that you are so caring and doing everything you can for her. Bless you!

 

[quailbird]

Evening update:

Well, this button girl is still alive and in fact seems better. I am going to keep calm because I do not want to get a let down should she not make it.
I took everyones advice and I ran up to Tractor Supply first thing in the morning to get the calcium gluconate and also including Garrie Landry who got right back to me in an email this morning with a few more suggestions which was to add an overhead light, keep her away from the others no matter how much she wants to go back to them, even if it is just the girls and make her a hard boiled egg.
Gosh, she looks darn good. I do take her out to clean her vent and oil it up. She is eating, drinking and walking around the small hospital cage. The only thing I notice is I have not seen her sit down. I suppose if ones backside is torn up, one does not want to sit on it. I assume there must be pain.

These button quail are really beautiful birds, pretty in every way alone with their young, baby bird appearance. I hope this little lady makes it. Funny, I didn't name her nor one of the other females in my small flock of 9 in total. I've got Tiffany, Rusty, Whitey, Leopard Girl, Cinnamon, Blackie, Red Buttons. Should she make it, she gets a name.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

@quailbird Have you thought about names for her if she makes it? I can relate to the way you're approaching her outcome Most people either keep any reference to the future guarded or they speak it into fruition. I tend to do one out loud when conversing with others and the other quietly in my mind. I know this is stressful but please know that your doing an amazing job taking care of her. She's a lucky little lady.
I had a chick that hatched in spite of some obstacles and then prevailed over other concerns. I had to give her a name of a fighter. My daughter (9year old) and I decided on Zelda (our very own princess warrior!).

 

[quailbird]

@quailbird Have you thought about names for her if she makes it? I can relate to the way you're approaching her outcome Most people either keep any reference to the future guarded or they speak it into fruition. I tend to do one out loud when conversing with others and the other quietly in my mind. I know this is stressful but please know that your doing an amazing job taking care of her. She's a lucky little lady.
I had a chick that hatched in spite of some obstacles and then prevailed over other concerns. I had to give her a name of a fighter. My daughter (9year old) and I decided on Zelda (our very own princess warrior!).

Aww thank you for those kind words.
I may have a name for her should she pull thru; "Warrior Princess." Thank you

 

[Chicalina]

Aww thank you for those kind words.
I may have a name for her should she pull thru; "Warrior Princess." Thank you

Xena!!!

 

[the3quail]

Don't mean to barge in here like a stranger-- but pics of the egg compared to a normal quail egg? You said it was huge.. and now I'm curious lol!!

 

[quailbird]

Don't mean to barge in here like a stranger-- but pics of the egg compared to a normal quail egg? You said it was huge.. and now I'm curious lol!!

When I got it out, it appeared of nl size.
It felt big only because I do feel my girls most every morning to count up my daily eggs. Ive 6 girls and usually get about 5-6 daily. Her egg felt big inside, but guessing now that was due to swelling from the bind.
PS- not barging in. Am happy to be learning from other birders.

 

[DaisyBuff]

Put some milk in a container and put a little bit of water in it to weaken the milk a little bit feed the milk mixture to the quail using a dropper.

 

[quailbird]

Ok, guess I’ll go and name her...ZENA it is. The warrior Princess.

The Princess Zena
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I don’t know, I mean, she is looking good to me. Alert, hardly puffed out anymore, bright eyed. Moving around the small hospital cage wanting to get with the others. Slept well last night and did sit to sleep.

I still think shes got a medical mess going on with the vent. Still alternating applications of olive oil and neosporin. Seeing normal looking BMs, eating, drinking. No egg noted by palpation, which is good.

Current picture taken just now. dried blood and urine. Dont want to wipe it off too hard or will tear again. Looks to me that the skin did tear if you look towards the top of picture. Then you see a sort of bridge of pink skin with a dark area on the left side which seems to be where a feather was and has been there from the first time I saw it yesterday as unchanged. Then below that black mark the area of the vent looks normal, but moving towards the right of the picture (birds left) this is a large laceration/tear. Her vent muscles do work very well, but of course she cannot completely close herself up.

so there you have it. Garrie said these birds are amazing healers and he has seen some that looked like they would die and that more seem to pull thru than not. Still, I’m going to keep myself a bit guarded, but it does appear positive. How the heck do they live thru such severe damage? Pretty amazing. Mother Nature is truly a force not to be reckoned with!