Please help with baby quail

[Love my Critters!]

My neighbor brought over what she thought was a baby chick. She thought it may have been one of the wild game chickens that run loose through the neighborhood. I think it is a baby quail. It is very tiny. She found it outside in her yard and her hen was being mean to it. I will have to get my camera and try to post a pic to make sure. Can yall please give me some info. I have never had one before. It seems a little weak, I gave it some smushed up hard boiled egg mixed with water. I guess I will need to go get some food for it. It wants to eat. I put it in with one of my broody silkie hens and she is keeping it warm for me. How warm do they need to be? When it cheeps, it sounds like a baby chicken. Also it looks like the yolk sac didn't absorb all the way. It has hardened up though. It is smaller than my new born silkies, and none of the "wild" hens have newborns, theirs are all about 3-4 weeks old, that is why I am guessing quail. Anyway any info will be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks.

 

[lisahaschickens]

I wish I could help you but I know nothing about quail... but I know there are plenty of quail people on here that will be able to help you. Pictures would be great to see and probably will help people advise you.

Good luck! I hope you can save it! Keep us posted.

 

[shelleyd2008]

A picture would be helpful. I don't think quail chicks really peep like chicken chicks, they have a cooing kind of call that they make. It's hard to say what it is, but either way, your silkie hen would have no trouble raising it if she has accepted it.

 

[Love my Critters!]

Thanks, that is what I thought. It does sound like a chick when it chirps. Thats why at first I thought - chicken, but it is soooo little and I can't figure out where it could have come from so I thought - quail. ???? My dad is borrowing my camera, so I will try to get it back tonight to get some pics so I can be certain what I'm dealing with.

 

[MoodyChicken]

Raise a quail the same way you'd raise a chicken. It will do just fine under your hen.

 

[monarc23]

most quails are WAY smaller than silkie chicks you can't even compair the two they are THAT much smaller.

A newly hatched coturnix chick could sit perfectly on a nickle a button even smaller than that (think bumble bee) and bobwhite chicks would be around the same as a coturnix inside I assume.

Apicture deffinatly would help but im betting theres a great possibility that it still is a chicken chick

Cant wait to see tho!

 

[Love my Critters!]

I think it is probably a chicken chick. It is not that small, it is probably half the size of my silkie chicks. Well, it is one of the funniest chicken chicks I've ever seen. I am having to "force" feed but I put it back with my broody after that and she keeps it nice and toasty. I hope it makes it, although my luck it will be a rooster.

I wasn't able to get my camera this evening, I'll try tomorrow. Thank you everyone for your help.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Bobwhite chick is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand with a closed fist and still have room to move. I don't think quail chicks look anything like chicken chicks

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Ah, well, you don't remember my silkie chick and tuxedo coturnix chicks pic then, do you? The silkie mix chick was just a tiny bit bigger than the quail chicks were. I think I have deleted that pic, or I would re-post it. But normally, unless you have seriously tiny bantams like I do, quail chicks are much smaller than chicken chicks