Saddest bobwhite quail story ever

[themikepeng]

So first I hatched 13 bobwhite quails no problems for 2 weeks then one dies,
it gets weak
it doesn't move a lot
it has messed up feathers
it keeps closing its eyes
it is silent
it defecates white
Another one died the same way after 4 weeks, but then it accelerates like a bullet from there: it is 10 weeks in and I lost 4 of them the last week the same way, and now I only have 1 and it looks sick already! I gave it antobiotics because it seems like quail disease but it has little to no help! Some of them die in like and hour, others take up to 2 days! I am down to my last one now, if it dies I will cry for a full day I can't take it anymore seeing all of my quails die from the same freaking disease I feel as much emotional pain as they feel physical pain! This summer sucks already then all my quails die the same painful way! I can't take it anymore! I put the last one in a cardboard box that is clean and I bake its food it will probably die in a few hours I hope someone reads this and at least knows how sad I feel...

 

[loverofbirds14]

I'm so sorry.

 

[themikepeng]

The last one started looking less sick, then it fled by itself, I hope it has a good life God forgive me

 

[themikepeng]

What is the easiest quail to raise definitely not bobwhite disease wise, I thought about California because they are around where I live

 

[loverofbirds14]

Have you ever tried button quail? I read that they are very disease resistant. I don't actually have any experience with quail, but I want to get some buttons.

 

[themikepeng]

it has been almost a month i am still watching the videos of them over and over again

so sad i hope that last one has a great time need to raise quail again they are so cute

 

[themikepeng]

still watching the old videos many times every day

I want coturnix because I heard they are friendly also if Japanese quail resist disease do Texas A&M and jumbo also? i want one that is friendly and less sensitive to disease http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/pou...rview_of_ulcerative_enteritis_in_poultry.html

 

[thechooks22]

It must be some sort of quail sickness ...we had exactly the same thing happen .
We brought 25 chicks and no joke we only have 5 left all the others died in 2-4 days they had the same food they had been fed by the person we brought them off feed them ..water avaliable ..heat and so on ...so we asjed a breeder and he said
That its just something that comes in the air on rainy days and it kills them off very quickly ...so Sad :'(