Help - one week old quail chick stopped walking right, falls over and spins on back

[NewtoQuails]

Hi, I've just hatched 9 healthy quail. All seemed good for a week and healthy. One of the littler ones just stopped walking right in the last 24 hours. It's walking like it's drunk, falling over and then spinning in circles or flailing on it's back before it can right itself. I've just seperated it from the rest in case it's sick (??). It has its own water and food. Everyone else seems healthy. Any ideas?? Thanks! I've read the other threads, but they don't quite seem like the same thing. I'll get vitamins, but would one be deficient and not the others?
Thanks SO much for any help.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Hi

Glad you could join the flock! Sorry to hear about your quail It does sound like it could have a vitamin deficiency which has caused wry/crook neck. The spinning and flailing around you have described certainly does sound like this. Catching this early and getting the vitamins into quail will give it the best chance of recovery. If your quail can't eat and drink on its own you will need to hand feed and the water it. Malnutrition and dehydration are more likely to kill it than the disease it's self as the bird becomes unable to eat and drink. Scrambled or boiled chopped egg are great for helping sick birds. The eggs have lots of protein and building blocks of life in them.

Good luck with your quail I hope it recovers soon

 

[Mrs Grace]

I had a chicken that had been mulled by a dog. I put some powdered vitamin mix in her water and it seemed to perk her up. Her neck wouldn't stay straight and we eventually gave up on keeping her.

 

[NewtoQuails]

Thanks so much for the replies. (And for the welcome, Yorkshire Coop!). The poor girl got worse - I tried to give her vitamin water, but I think we were too late to the game. Her chest puffed up and she was laying flat and pretty pathetic. It didn't look good so I put her out of her misery. First time killing a quail, quick and painless, but hard nonetheless. I sure hope it gets easier by the time our little males are old enough to need culling.

 

[dc3085]

Ive dispatched many thousands of quail and the little ones still take a bit out of you. The older ones get real easy though because they taste so good