Help! Hen with head injury!

[Nabiki]

With coturnix quail, rooster fertility drops off dramatically at one year. Their lifespan is usually 2-5 years depending on their care. Most breeders replace their males at 1 year and their females at 18 months.

 

[YWoody]

With coturnix quail, rooster fertility drops off dramatically at one year. Their lifespan is usually 2-5 years depending on their care. Most breeders replace their males at 1 year and their females at 18 months.

Oh wow, I was misinformed...
I'm only raising for the eggs, no interest in butchering. I local breeder who is also a falconer says that he will take my hens when they stop laying. But I'm likely going to give up my rooster.
Not sure what I'm going to do when I need to get new hens though. I didn't have much luck with the fertilized eggs that were shipped to me. Almost all of them were damaged in shipment and didn't even develop at all; only got 3 live chicks out of 18 eggs
Therefore, I had the thought of letting my quail produce my next batch of fertilized eggs

 

[Nabiki]

Oh wow, I was misinformed...
I'm only raising for the eggs, no interest in butchering. I local breeder who is also a falconer says that he will take my hens when they stop laying. But I'm likely going to give up my rooster.
Not sure what I'm going to do when I need to get new hens though. I didn't have much luck with the fertilized eggs that were shipped to me. Almost all of them were damaged in shipment and didn't even develop at all; only got 3 live chicks out of 18 eggs
Therefore, I had the thought of letting my quail produce my next batch of fertilized eggs

Where did you get your eggs? I have had very good luck with Southwest Game Birds and MyShire Farm.

 

[YWoody]

Where did you get your eggs? I have had very good luck with Southwest Game Birds and MyShire Farm.

Good morning Nabiki,
I bought my eggs from Sandy Soils Farm; the 3 that hatched were perfect, and grew into gorgeous big quail, (much healthier than the hens I got from local breeder to complete my little flock). Sandy Soils refunded my money & she encouraged me to "autopsy" the eggs that failed, which I did at 23 days (only one egg had a dead, mostly developed chick in it (that hadn't turned), the rest didn't develop at all). I blame the postal service; I think they were mishandled. Plus my incubators temp was fluctuating all over the place.
Thank you.. good suggestions! I am close enough to Southwest Game birds that I could easily drive up and bypass the postal service all together.

 

[Team01]

What kind of medicine can you put on that kind of head sore

 

[Nabiki]

What kind of medicine can you put on that kind of head sore

You don't need to put anything on it, but you can use any antibiotic cream as long as it doesn't contain pain killers. Many of the pain killers are toxic to birds.

 

[Team01]

You don't need to put anything on it, but you can use any antibiotic cream as long as it doesn't contain pain killers. Many of the pain killers are toxic to birds.

Can you use veterans spray

 

[Nabiki]

Do you mean Vetericyn? That works.