I think my baby quail is hurt. HELP!!!

[emsevers]

I transfered my babies to a container to clean out the brooder and once I put them back in it looks like one of them has a hurt leg. It can't move very well and I don't know what to do. I put it in a separate container in the brooder for now to see if it can get better but I don't know. It lays there with both legs out to the side. I think it may have gotten smashed by all the others while it was in the container. What can I do for it?

 

[PurpleChicken]

With a quail you are doing all you can. They are small buggers.

Keep it warm with food and water accessable.

Quail are tough little birds. I squeezed one's neck in the door
of my brooder. It looked dead. An hour later it was up and about.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

What kind of bedding do you have in the container?

Does it have good footing?

Sometimes if you use something slick like newspaper, it can lead to foot troubles.

-Kim

 

[emsevers]

I have pine shavings down. I know this happened while I was cleaning out the brooder. I had them in a tuperware bowl since there is only 15 of them. Can they get splay leg after they've been fine for a few days?