Binki
Songster
This is what she looks like today, I'm pretty sure her left eye is no longer there. It looks awful.
That does look very bad :/ is that her eye open on the right side?
I believe you can also use Visine *without* pain reliever but please double check that. You may want to check out if saline would be suitable for washing her as its sterile but not sure if it's safe for quail.
It doesn't look like she will be able to eat or drink until she can see so she'll need your TLC again.. I don't have experience with wounds like this but have read of some incredible recoveries when they thought the eye was lost - not sure where this grades with that.
As for Ricky, it's possible he thought they were now strange intruders, not a part of the group anymore and possibly males - this is much more likely to happen if when they were seperated it wasn't by partition, and if it was in a different cage then the cage was far and/or out of sight which can make them no longer part of his group and therefore an intruder being plopped in on them with no way to escape.
About two hours ago, I walked in on the most docile of my pet hen group bouncing on and pecking the heads of 2/3 of the other girls - first time she's ever shown any aggression, and she's even been more laid back the past few days, keeping to herself mostly.
I seperated her for about half an hour and put her back in and observed them, two minutes later she suddenly targeted one of the hens and I physically held her back and deeply scolded her. Incredibly it seemed to snap her out of it, so far!
I'm thinking maybe the quail she mostly targeted was going through her "I want to lay an egg so I'm going to ram the other hens for about ten minutes to try and snuggle into them to drop my egg" thing she does and it upset my docile hen to the point where she snapped? Only thing I could think of, like I said she's never done anything aggressive before.
But as for your Ricky those are some brutal wounds and I'm not sure if I would be able to trust him again unsupervised with other quail because it looks like he can do a good amount of damage in a short amount of time :/