HELP, very swollen vent area on several of my Coturnix Quail

[birdturds]

We have 2 Quail cages and in one cage there are 6 adults, roughly 9 months old. Today I noticed that 4 of them have very swollen vent areas. Roughly the size and shape of a Quail egg. My first thought was an egg stuck in there but then I noticed that it was happening to 4 of the birds and included a male. It looks very bad but they seem totally fine in their behavior. They are acting perfectly fine and seem happy and they are even running around and playing. There is no discharge or build up around the vent and the swollen areas don't seem to be painful for them.

Let me add, three weeks ago there was a random dead bird in the same cage, I assumed a predator was giving them a hard time and she broke her neck on the ceiling. BUT I did notice some of the same swelling on her vent area although it wasn't as bad as the 4 birds today.

I should probably move the other Coturnix cage further away from the other.(?)
We also have a Chicken coop about 25 feet away, a red golden pen about 20 feet away and we're getting ready to release 40 Ringneck Pheasants, although their pen is much further from the others (@100 ft)

Any thoughts?
Thanks for reading and thanks for any advice or thoughts

best wishes, Scott

 

[Hannahnic14]

I was going to suggest maybe egg bound until I seen it was a male experiencing this as well. I'm no help but maybe this will bump you to the top so someone will see!

 

[UrbanHomesteadTX]

I just noticed this exact same thing on my male coturnix. He's nearly nine weeks old now. Checked the others in the same cage and he was the only one with it. What happened with your birds?

 

[quailrescuer]

My sweet roo has this too. What did it end up being?

 

[Belovedturkey]

I have no idea what this could be, but I would recommend soaking them in a Epsom salt bath, if it’s not to much trouble and giving the probiotics in their water until you can narrow something down to treat

 

[UrbanHomesteadTX]

I discovered this to actually be normal. If you squeeze it, you should see white foam coming out. That bulb has to do with breeding, it pretty much shows up during breeding season.
Conclusion is there's nothing to worry about, it's a natural phenomenon that is not painful and can be a good sign of a breeding male