quail health

[manybirds]

we got guinea keets and quail eggs from a lady and one of the guinea keets had a leg that started to grow backwards and now one of my quail has what appears to be wry neck and one of its legs is turning backwards. is this a disease we brought from this ladies house or is it a deficiency? we just fed them multipurpose chick grower side they hatched, what do you feed? whats wrong with them? the leg thing is freaking me out its not broken just backwards!

 

[kingmt]

If they are in wire take them off. They need to be on something solid as long as they need to be in a brooder. Feed should be 30% I believe.

 

[TwoCrows]

The leg turning backwards is no doubt something genetic. Not anything contagious. Over breeding. Wry neck many times is also genetic and stems from breeder birds not fed well. I would not get birds from this person again and do not breed these birds as they will pass this on their offspring as well.

I am so sorry.

 

[kingmt]

I have seen hurt chicks knee swell to the point it looks backwards. This actually gets better. Of the for is the right direction is assume this is the case with your bird.

 

[manybirds]

Sorry I never responded, I forgot to check this thread. The baby whos leg was turned backward kept getting worse until the leg was basically like loose and stuck backwards, we put it out of its misery before anything worse happened. One started to get a little bit of a head turn so we added egg yolk and soy protein to the diet and nothing worse came of it, he grew up and he's just a little goofy looking now. I am going to get some different bloodlines from else where in the spring though. Does anybody else raise coturnix? just wondering because the color of the ones I got looks like its something between a snowflake bob white and a wild brown pattern. I asked the lady why that was because all of hers were either brown or white and she said it might be because she had french coturnix she had recently bought. What does that mean?

 

[Halloweengirl13]

did they look like this? She's an Italian speckled coturnix

 

[Halloweengirl13]

They are all puffed up because they are sleepy andI took the picture at night and they were not too thrilled to be woken up.

 

[manybirds]

Yes that is what all of them look like! Thank you. Is it just a color variation or are they different otherwise

 

[Halloweengirl13]

Its a color variation, still just regular coturnix Lol

 

[Halloweengirl13]

I have Tibetan,tuxedo Tibetan, white, Italian and wild or Pharaoh coturnix. When you cross white with Tibetan you get tuxes.