KGQuail24
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- Jun 6, 2021
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Seeking reassurance, guidance, and advice!
10 week Coturnix found this morning to have a bleeding toe. No idea how it happened. I cleaned the floor of their entire ground run with fresh sand and wood chips and brushed off the hardware cloth floor of their coop, but I didn't find any sharp spots or dried poo that looked like what caused injury. Nevertheless, she hurt it somehow. I've attached photos. Luckily I have a poultry wound care spray on hand, also photographed. So far today I have grabbed the bird twice, first to douse well in the spray and gently clean with a paper towel. A couple hours later, I brought out a bowl of warm water to soak her foot for several minutes, then clean more thoroughly and apply another good soaking of that spray. Since she continued to tolerate the handling, I read on another poultry site that Nu-skin liquid bandage was ok to use on bird feet, so we let the spray dry and applied a drop of that, which is supposed to be antiseptic as well as sealing the wound almost like nail polish. I held her a few minutes till that dried and let her go. She grabbed some food, which was good, but I haven't seen her go to her waterer, which I added MannaPro Hydra Hen electrolytes to in order to support her healing. You can lead a quail to water but you can't make them drink ... She seems to be walking and resting ok, out in the midst of everybody else and no one is picking on her.
Any other suggestions? What else should I do going forward?
10 week Coturnix found this morning to have a bleeding toe. No idea how it happened. I cleaned the floor of their entire ground run with fresh sand and wood chips and brushed off the hardware cloth floor of their coop, but I didn't find any sharp spots or dried poo that looked like what caused injury. Nevertheless, she hurt it somehow. I've attached photos. Luckily I have a poultry wound care spray on hand, also photographed. So far today I have grabbed the bird twice, first to douse well in the spray and gently clean with a paper towel. A couple hours later, I brought out a bowl of warm water to soak her foot for several minutes, then clean more thoroughly and apply another good soaking of that spray. Since she continued to tolerate the handling, I read on another poultry site that Nu-skin liquid bandage was ok to use on bird feet, so we let the spray dry and applied a drop of that, which is supposed to be antiseptic as well as sealing the wound almost like nail polish. I held her a few minutes till that dried and let her go. She grabbed some food, which was good, but I haven't seen her go to her waterer, which I added MannaPro Hydra Hen electrolytes to in order to support her healing. You can lead a quail to water but you can't make them drink ... She seems to be walking and resting ok, out in the midst of everybody else and no one is picking on her.
Any other suggestions? What else should I do going forward?
