Question about Buttons Injury or Disease?

[quailbrain]

I got a call from a friend this weekend who is pretty upset. She has been burned by a few pople and just done with raising animals. It was very sad. I guess she had someone who she was pet sitting for never return for thier pets whom she knew nothing about and soon had a baby. Then she was asked to hatch out 200 Coturnix (she likes hatching eggs for others) that someone had bought online. So she hatched out the eggs and when the owner came for them they were not all white Texas A&M so they wouldn't take them all as if she had changed their colors some how. She didn't want 80 Coturnix chicks. Then she lost her favorite breeding male button quail.

She is selling what she can by Saturday and the rest including cages, food and incubators are coming to me! I'm sad that she wont be raing buttons anymore. She like the white mutations and was here in town so it was kinda fun. On the other hand I get her beautiful flock!

But I have a question. She recently lost a favorite bird. The button when she came home had it's beak stuck open. He could not shut his beak apparently. I hadn't heard of this but now that I am probably getting her flock I'm wanting to make sure there is not disease related to this? Anyone ever heard of this? She has said she looked online but came up empty handed and her others seem just fine so she thinks it was an injury.

If I'm about to inherit 30 more buttons and 80 (60 s she's sold some) Coturnix I want to make sure I'm not bring in something bad into my birds. I have gotten many buttons from her and never had a problem with one of them so I'm not to worried, just cautious.

 

[monarc23]

beak stuck opened? Do you mean she tried to shut it and it would physically not shut? OR he just kept it open? If it was stuck opened i'd wonder about some sort of stroke etc (how old was he)? Or if he just kept it opened sound like may have been some sort of respiratory problem.


It's always a safe practice to quarrentine all new birds to your flock anyhow

keep them separated atleast by aroom if you can help it feed from different feed and water containers wash hands after handling etc. For about 2 weeks if you can a month if you really can

If no signs of illness show up in that amount of time it's safe to start intigrating.

 

[quailbrain]

I am really not sure what she meant by it. I didn't see it. He was beautiful as I had seen him before he passed, other than that I'm not sure. She is bringing cages and all so seperation wouldn't be hard. I just had never heard of that before and don't want a disease in my flock. I guess she had just taken in some "rescue" buttons so she has a bunch. She is trying to sell as many as she can before she brings them here. I've got 90 eggs in my incubator as I wasn't planning on this but could be interesting!

There are a large number of Coturnix coming too. She has sold some of them but is holding the tuxedo for me for sure. I think I will even be taking on the chinchillas that were dumped on her.

 

[Ducklove334]

someone wouldn't come get the quail because they wern't a certain color?

how dumb is that?!

but then again people can be downright stupid!

I had a lady once buy some duck eggs off of me, she was perfectly fine with it the first time, nice as could be, understood that at that time that almost ALL of the ducklings would be mutts, so she buys a dozen eggs, tells ME that she is going to set them that night, so i email her roughly 2 weeks later, and ask how they're doing, she's real sketchy, "oh as far as I can tell, a couple are developing", ok, by two weks you can SEE a dark mass, duh..so several weeks later she emails again, asking to buy more..ok, fine I'm happy with that, so i ask her how many she wants through email, she says a dozen and asks a price, I give it to her, no reply for several days, then her "man" calls and asks if we can lower the price, wich i think was 7$ or 8$ per dozen, we ask why and he says it's because she's complaining that the ducklings wern't purebred!, HELLO, I TOLD her that, so we give them a lower price and they say they'd meet us with them.

they never show, no answers from phone or email either..ok, whatever..THEN she continues to reply to my adds for duck eggs,

OH! and did I mention that we asked her husband how the FIRST batch of eggs was developing, he said she'd JUST set them a few days prior, a whole MONTH after getting them!?

if your friend likes raising button quail, she should get discouraged so easily

 

[quailbrain]

She has had birds for years. She is keeping a pair but not breeding anymore. I have had flakes along with the good as well but she is too kind hearted I think. I don't think she even charged to hatch the Coturnix. She just loves chicks. This other lady wanted A&M and I don't know much about Coturnix so either the eggs were not A&M or they don't breed true but about 50% must have been tuxedo and brown colors (don't know my colors yet) . Sounds like maybe your duck lady is the same lady

. She is keeping her favorite button pair and the rest of her critters (trust me she wont be lonely!) I feel bad for her cause she is even getting rid of the incubators so she doesn't get "talked into" hatching for anyone else.

Bitter sweet for me.