What is wrong with my baby button quail?

[jfulcher]

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Alrighty sounds good I will be looking for upates!!!

 

[annelle]

Called the bird vet today but had to leave a message as he was too busy to help me. Hopefully he'll answer Monday.

My little baby's still active and fiesty. Some of his stools were a little soft this morning--I don't know if it's because I introduced him to spinach last night, because I haven't jumped on giving him grit yet because I keep finding mixed facts about it, or because he's started pecking at his toilet paper nesting trying to eat it (he loves that nesting; I hope it's not the cause). I'm not ready to connect it to his little episodes yet, though I'm sure it's possible.

His 'seizures' got a lot more frequent last night when I stopped responding to his calls because I needed to go to sleep. He got really agitated, running everywhere and calling incredibly loudly, looking for me, and kept trying to jump the walls of his tank. Then he just fell into fits--the same little attacks over and over for about fifteen to twenty minutes, spanned a minute or two apart. They became more infrequent again when he got tired and calmed down. This morning they've stayed about as infrequent. He'll have long periods of nothing then a few little attacks in a row several minutes apart. I think he's becoming used to them--he bounces right back up without pause as soon as they're over.

I'm wondering if he could get seizures from having a lower protein diet? Right now he's living on 18% protein chick feed: I'd bought a 24% game bird feed for him originally but his breeder had me take it back and gave me some of her chick feed instead. She told me every time she fed her buttons anything higher that 18%, they got bloody stools. I wonder if she just has a strange line of birds

 

[jfulcher]

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quail need high levels of protein from everything I heard.... Try putting a stuffed animal in his tank for companionship it might calm him down. He is panicking because you arent coming when he calls you, and buttons are social birds. Stress will cause seizures. If that is even what they are, I am not saying that is indee for sure what they are. But it could be. Just keep an eye on him

 

[annelle]

I know--it's in everything I've read too. I'm very tempted to just ignore her warning and buy the high protein food again.

My baby is VERY clingy to me. He paces the wall of his tank watching me, trying to get at me any time I'm not right beside him. I've tried stuffed toys but they didn't work--the only thing that has a little is his toilet paper nesting he can vanish in. I'm considering forming a little environment to let him be outside his tank and still keep warm/be able to eat and drink when I'm at home

 

[jfulcher]

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Good idea!

 

[the outdoorsman]

One of my coturnixes hatched wahooooo i cant stay still