louiserivergod151
Chirping
- Sep 13, 2021
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Feeling pretty down today and can't help but feel a bit defeated.
I had 7 baby quail, 2 weeks old and thriving. At some point last night/early hours of the morning the bulb in my brooder lamp had blown...meaning they were exposed to cold temperatures for x amount of time (its getting pretty chilly at night here in the UK). When we woke up this morning, i found 4 dead, 2 breathing but laying on their sides not moving, and 1 (the most feathered) still upright but shivering and wobbly on its feet. The 3 remaining i put straight into my brinsea to warm them up whilst i drove out to buy new bulbs but when i got home the 2 pretty lifeless babies were gone and the 1 remaining ok one had perked up abit and was back to scurring around. She (i think) is now back in her brooder all alone with a new bulb in but cant help but fret that 1. this bulb will go again as the bulb that had blown before was 2 weeks in use, and so fear i lose my last and only quail. 2, shes now completely alone and dont know if that affects them at all. i dont want to put her in with the chicken chicks (who are also 2 weeks old) as fear they'll trample her).
Feel pretty sad and guilty like i could have done better as im new to quail. Ive ordered more eggs to start again but just so disappointed. They were my 1st quail and out of 16 set, only 7 hatched and to get this far to only lose them because of a bloody stupid equipment failure has really p*ssed on my chips. How long do they have to be exposed to a cold room for it to kill them?
I had 7 baby quail, 2 weeks old and thriving. At some point last night/early hours of the morning the bulb in my brooder lamp had blown...meaning they were exposed to cold temperatures for x amount of time (its getting pretty chilly at night here in the UK). When we woke up this morning, i found 4 dead, 2 breathing but laying on their sides not moving, and 1 (the most feathered) still upright but shivering and wobbly on its feet. The 3 remaining i put straight into my brinsea to warm them up whilst i drove out to buy new bulbs but when i got home the 2 pretty lifeless babies were gone and the 1 remaining ok one had perked up abit and was back to scurring around. She (i think) is now back in her brooder all alone with a new bulb in but cant help but fret that 1. this bulb will go again as the bulb that had blown before was 2 weeks in use, and so fear i lose my last and only quail. 2, shes now completely alone and dont know if that affects them at all. i dont want to put her in with the chicken chicks (who are also 2 weeks old) as fear they'll trample her).
Feel pretty sad and guilty like i could have done better as im new to quail. Ive ordered more eggs to start again but just so disappointed. They were my 1st quail and out of 16 set, only 7 hatched and to get this far to only lose them because of a bloody stupid equipment failure has really p*ssed on my chips. How long do they have to be exposed to a cold room for it to kill them?
i woke up this morning to find shes stuck her head in the water dish and drowned herself. There were pebbles in there so she was lying on top of the pebbles with her face in the water...is that normal? do they intentionally do that? her body was still dry minus a wet wing which had contact with the pebbles.
