MilotheQuail
In the Brooder
I need help. My Coturnix quail suddenly died and I don’t understand why, she was still so young (not even a year old yet). I think maybe it was mostly stress, but if it was some kind of disease/environment issue then I need to know because I have two other quails in the same enclosure. I kept her by herself separated from the others by a small barrier because the male kept harassing her and she didn’t like it, she’d always make a very sad sound. Recently it’s been raining a lot more and I think ever since that time it rained overnight and she stayed in her little sandbox out in the rain, she’s made a little noise in the back of the throat, which sounded like a whine or like someone with a sore throat. Other times she sounded perfectly fine though. I didn’t think much of it at the time (I thought it would go away with time) but looking back on it now I should have rushed her to go see the vet. Even before it rained though, she stopped laying eggs. Again, I didn’t think much of it since it was starting to become winter time (although maybe I should have because my other female quail was laying perfectly fine daily)—I thought maybe it had to do with the fact that she was a bigger quail than my other quail (I think jumbo Coturnix instead of Coturnix). Today I cleaned our her enclosure, sandbox, food bowl and all. Looking back on it now I think I shouldn’t have done so, I think perhaps I caused her a lot of stres so she died. I feel so bad, I don’t know what to do. I heard her flap around so I ran to see her and I saw her on her back; I panicked and I thought maybe she was choking or something since she sometimes made that strange sound in the back of her throat starting a few weeks prior, so I picked her up. Of course I didn’t know what I was doing. When I put her down again she flapped around a few times and her head went limp. I shouldn’t have picked her up I must have caused her to panic and stress even more. Please if anyone can help me, please let me know what to do. What can I do to help the other quails so that this does not happen again, was it just stress that she died or did she catch some kind of bacterial infection? I feel like I could have done better, I dont know what I should do. I’m sure I’m at fault at least partly for her death.
I live in a mild climate, so it hasn’t been very cold, only rainy.
I live in a mild climate, so it hasn’t been very cold, only rainy.