Sleepy, weak, thin button quail!!! Please help!!!

[maggienchamp]

I have 6 button quail living in a large cage right now, as I'm in the process of splitting them up into pairs. Just today I noticed one of my females, a Golden Pearl, looking very weak and puffy in the corner of the cage. Her eyes were closed and she seemed very sleepy. I picked her up and she was extremely light. Just a couple days ago she was fine - normal weight, normal activity. I guess the only thing I noticied is that she was sleepier than usual, but nothing I really thought I should be concerned about. What could have caused this drastic change? Could it be due to her starting to lay eggs? One of the females was already laying, but another one just started, so it's possible it was her. However, I wouldn't think these changes would be brought about by that, but it's the only thing I can think of.

Right now I have her seperated from the others under a low amount of heat. I gave her sugar water and mixed in some of their eggs with their normal gamebird crumble food. Is there anything else I can do for her?

Thank you for any help/suggestions

 

[maggienchamp]

Update: The golden pearl female is doing fine now, it's as if nothing was ever wrong. However, I went down to check on everyone this morning like I usually do and one of my other female buttons was huddled in a corner dead! I noticed last night that she had similar symptoms as the golden pearl - fluffed up & very sleepy - but I decided not to move her until morning, just in case her condition improved overnight...definatley not the case. What is going on with my poor buttons?!?! I feel so guilty for not seperating her and doing what I did with the golden pearl. I just thought that since the golden pearl got better so quickly that maybe she didn't need to be seperated

Please, please help me figure out what's wrong!!! I fear that whatever this is could spread to the others