HELP! QUAIL STRUGGLING TO LAY EGG!

[Nabiki]

She's showing symptoms of being egg bound now

Get her into another epsom salt bath. Are you restricting her light? I think it will be very good to give her a break from laying so she can heal up. If you give her 8 hours or less of light a day, she will stop trying to lay until you give her more light.

 

[Oob Child]

Get her into another epsom salt bath. Are you restricting her light? I think it will be very good to give her a break from laying so she can heal up. If you give her 8 hours or less of light a day, she will stop trying to lay until you give her more light.

It's the middle of winter, they only get light for about 10 hours a day and it's winter light.
I'm going to try that. She has definitely been getting calcium, I thought I might've even gone overboard with it.

 

[Oob Child]

She just pooped!
Im not sure if she was struggling to poo or what, but now she's back at straining.
Is there an egg in there, or just a really big poo? This is about the time she tried laying an egg yesterday.

 

[Nabiki]

She just pooped!
Im not sure if she was struggling to poo or what, but now she's back at straining.
Is there an egg in there, or just a really big poo? This is about the time she tried laying an egg yesterday.

If she's pooping, she's not egg bound. She may just be hurting from the prolapse.

 

[Oob Child]

If she's pooping, she's not egg bound. She may just be hurting from the prolapse.

I have her a warm Epsom salt bath and she seemed to enjoy that.