Problem with quail

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So I have had jumbo Coturnix quail for about 2 years now, and this has happened to 3 of them.
Their legs start stiffening up, and they cant move their legs or toes. It seems to slowly get worse the longer they have it.
One has died, one seems okay with shuffling around, and another is probably going to die, too, because her legs are so stiff that she cant even get to the water or food without assistance.
Is this a nutritional deficiency? I'm guessing that it's most probably something that I am doing wrong. Is there a way to fix this?
Also, should I cull the girl who cant walk to relieve her from her misery?
I have pictures if wanted.
 
Awe im sorry about this trouble. I think you really need to have a necropsy done asap. That sounds an aweful lot like mareks disease. Lots of poultry illnesses mirror eachother in symptoms though and a necropsy with your state lab should make things 100% clear. Mine was 50$ when i had birds dying. What are you feeding them? Its possible to be a nutritional deficiency i guess but thats pretty severe and it would be a problem with what your feeding as the staple.
 
I'm sure it's not mareks disease because this has been going on for 2 years and out of my 8 quail, only 3 had gotten it throughout that period of time.
I have been trying many types of foods, trying to see if any make a difference, but nothing.
I am going to try purina game because it has a lot of good reviews, and I am probably going to stick with that.
It's really weird, because it reminds my of curled toe, but it's different. It doesnt get cured with shoes or casts. It just keeps progressing, and their legs and toes just stiffen up and don't move at all. It's kinda sad.
 
Mareks doesnt just kill every bird it comes into contact with immediately like some diseases, sometimes it takes years and it destroys the brain slowly, plus some have higher tollerance, so thats how it presents as inability to move and Slow death. Regardless, i may be Very wrong diagnosing from a million miles away just by reading two paragraphs but a vet wouldnt be wrong and the necropsy i had done on my birds? i thought i knew it was arsenic in ash in their dush baths, and it was the gnats :rant:

If your switching between multiple nutritionally balanced poultry feeds then i would think thats pretty good for them and has them covered on the vitamins except maybe protein of which they need the highest amount of poultry feed such as that game bird feed your scoping out.

What Ms @Tycine1 said is a great place to start if you wont have the vets examination and i understand some people just Cant afford it. Sometimes i cant afford it, but it should be made a priority if your selling any live poultry or beinging them to any shows and could be spreading disease, and thats why i would borrow the money if i didnt have it. Mutiple birds suffering those same tortuous problems def needs to be addressed to the best of ur ability and i wish you God speed doing it no matter what route you take.
 
Thank you guys so much! I didnt know that Mareks disease took so long to progress, so I am definitely going to see about that necropsy, and I am also going to get those vitamins. I just wish that I would of asked a long time ago so that I could of saved all of them. Thanks!
 
MinnesotaBantamChick said:
Thank you guys so much! I didnt know that Mareks disease took so long to progress, so I am definitely going to see about that necropsy, and I am also going to get those vitamins. I just wish that I would of asked a long time ago so that I could of saved all of them. Thanks!
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Awe your welcome! Theres an article here on site where i read that ill find it for u and link u just a minute
 

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