Quail?!?!

[Fat Daddy]

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My Buttons live in the building I used for brooding chick, its nice and warm for them. When I'm cleaning the pens I let everyone roam free inside the building and I've never had problems... Sometimes when I'm taking a long time they nap together

Not to sound preachy but... You really should research the topic and pix mhwc56 speaks of.... If nothing else just so you know what risk you take with your birds....

 

[Robo]

Look, you can keep your quail with ostriches and it be fine. Well that may not work for everyone, I lost a brooder full o quail to some OEGB chicks. The disease you speak of is coryza. It is fine to have them close to eachother, but there must be no droppings, using feeders and waterers between them without sanatizing, sharing cages, ext. They can be on the same property as long as they are pretty far away OR there is a solid barrier between them. I have both and just use hand sanatizer when feeding. Chickens are carriers of Coryza but show no symptoms. If a quail gets coryza they will show symptoms and if they recover they will become carriers and give it to the other's in the pen and it's offspring. They don't get "sick" they show horrible symptoms if not cared for properly because you think they just get sick. More like dierly ill...

 

[Robo]

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My Buttons live in the building I used for brooding chick, its nice and warm for them. When I'm cleaning the pens I let everyone roam free inside the building and I've never had problems... Sometimes when I'm taking a long time they nap together

Not to sound preachy but... You really should research the topic and pix mhwc56 speaks of.... If nothing else just so you know what risk you take with your birds....

Yes, bad mojo there. When you lose all of them you will know why. For some reason people do it anyway and when they get by with it they tell other people it is fine. That is setting them up for a fall. I will find the thread with PICTURES of how horrible being "sick" is...

 

[Robo]

Here is how "sick" they get.

 

[Robo]

Just a little sick huh?

 

[missfire]

Not trying to keep the pot stirred but if the chickens are on the ground and the quail are in above ground pens can they still transmit this sickness? Is it from the manure or from touch ect. ? I'm new to mixing chickens and quail had one or the other but not together till now. Just trying to get the real POOP from those that had it. Thanks

Dan

 

[Fat Daddy]

Its my understanding its from touch or contact. shared food, water, cough or sneeze spray, pet of a dirty hand, ect....

ETA, I have only read about it......

 

[Dogwood Farm]

Well I for one am glad I learned this before I got eggs to hatch.

 

[Stellar]

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Robo, don't you let chickens inside with your quail. I know you mention it a lot.

 

[Stellar]

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CHICKENS ARE CARRIERS OF DISEASES THAT QUAIL MAY DIE FROM...you put them together and you end up with serious problems alot of times.
If you have both chickens and quail on your property you NEED to be sure to be VERY CAREFUL not to contaminate by changing shoes/clothes and sanitizing hands before going from 1 to the other.

I am one of those that have quail, chicken, ducks, peafowl, guineas, etc...there are contaminates EVERYWHERE. I hatch most of the birds out, I don't have live birds come in the farm, and I have a closed farm. If a customer comes, I have them at the front, and I hand them eggs, show them birds I have available, etc. This is also to prevent robberies. Customers bring in disease if they have flocks of their own. Therefore in that case I DO change clothing/wash my hands before I handle my own flock. Within my own flock, I don't change clothes/shoes. I wash my hands between the brooder room to the breeder room. I brood quail/chickens/ducks in the same room. It's the "Brooder room." After all.

ETA: The coturnix are in one brooder, cbbq in another, ducks in one, chickens in one, etc