Something is wrong with her

[Lgrearly]

My adult female button quail started freaking out one day and now she runs in circles and is twisting her head in all different directions uncontrollably. Does anyone know what's wrong with her? Is it treatable?

 

[Nabiki]

Can you take a video, post it to YouTube and post a link here?

What is her setup like?
What are you feeding her?
Is there a chance that she hit her head?

 

[Lgrearly]

Can you take a video, post it to YouTube and post a link here?

What is her setup like?
What are you feeding her?
Is there a chance that she hit her head?

I hope I did this right...she is the white one in the back I'm trying to follow with the camera
She is in a 36*18*16 cage with 1 make and 3 other females. It is possible she flew up and hit her head. She usually gets wild quail seed, millet sticks, live mealworms, broccoli, apples & bananas

 

[Nabiki]

I see what you're talking about with her weird behaviour. She isn't getting proper nutrition, which doesn't help, but I suspect injury.

To help her recover, see if you can change all of them over to game bird crumble. The diet that you're feeding them doesn't have enough protein, and with the meal worms is probably too high in fat.

In the meantime, make sure she's warm, and keep a close eye on her. Try giving some boiled egg yolk if you can't get game bird crumble right away.

Keep us posted on how she's doing!

 

[little-beep]

I googled it and found another person who had said their quail was turning it's head upside down and spinning in circles..... A bird vet answered this way:

"One possibility of what may be going on is avian encephalomalacia (vitamin E deficiency). It happens when fats in the diet go rancid or a vit E deficient diet is fed. Treatment is by supplementing vitamin E and selenium in the diet.
Other possibilities are out there, of course, such as avian encephalomyelitis (a viral disease), rickets, vitamin B deficiency, Newcastle disease, eastern encephalitis, Marek’s disease, and encephalitis caused by a variety of pathogens.
If you have other quail, make sure they are being fed a good quality food mixture. I would recommend adding vitamin E and selenium to the diet, which you should be able to find where you buy your feed or a veterinary supply source. A good physical exam and diagnostic tests by an avian veterinarian would be an excellent idea to try and find out if this is more than a vitamin deficiency. If this bird doesn't make it, I would strongly recommend sending her in for a necropsy so they can find out what happened so that you can prevent it in the other birds. "