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Here I caught some big sneezing. Yeah, it seems like he wants food, but avoids it for some reason. I got all his favorite stuff just to have him eat something, and he engages a little, but quickly seems to get tired and like while he actively eats, his nose gets full and he has to sneeze. So he...

Aaaaaand he's sneezing, too. Rarely, but now it's clear. :(

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I'm adding a video, I think you can see it in this. I tried to keep close watch for some time and he also shakes his head occasionally like in the video, and one of his nostrils might be snotty? I'm unsure, but it might be discharge on one side. He rasps a little bit at the end of his breaths as...

Hello! Looking out for my buddy of almost three years, our Coturnix quail has been breathing through his mouth all day. I don't think I've seen this before, but maybe I haven't looked closely enough? He has always been extremely calm little sleepy boy, so I don't think it's super weird, but he...

Hi! 👋 Here's a long one to set the scene: we have a pair of quail - male (3 y/o) and female (2 y/o) that don't mate (the male is silly and prefers inanimate objects 🙄). The female broke her wing this summer and stopped laying since. We were hoping to add females to the ranks, but unfortunately...

I'm not sure what a cricket noise would be, I think he does? Like a trilling kind of sound. Here's some clips of how he chats. I've read that some of the commercial farms in my country keep Estonian quail (which I haven't heard anything about in the forums), but not specifically this brand...

Here's Chopin helping mom plant new things (or eat them). 😄 We still have NO idea what kind of quail he is, we just know he's a loud little boy who doesn't like the tea kettle, the vacuum and when people leave him out of conversations. 😂 So if you have any idea what breed he is, I'll welcome...

The vet did not say specifically which, only noted that worm eggs can be seen in his poop under the microscope. Unfortunately, I wasn't inside to ask, as we have the one pet/one person restriction at clinics currently. The medicine isn't marked either, but they gave the first dose and we have to...

Update with good news! We were able to, through contacts at the central zoo, find an expert on bird veterinary medicine who turned out to be right around the corner, and he had an appointment. Turned out our buddy has worms! No idea where from, but we got all the necessary medication, extra...

Update: My partner suspects an E. coli infection, since our bud has started sleeping upright and avoiding laying down, and we suspect he might've eaten his own poop at some point because he does stupid things. We refurbished his brooder to have an improvised wire floor (we did not have anything...

Yes, he's the only one. We also keep doves, but quail was a new venture. We feed him a seed/cereal mix (yellow/red/white millet, oats, linseed, safflower and some other seeds). Oh, and also add a bit of oyster grit with calcium once a week.

About 2 weeks ago we started adding a protein rich insect mix (mealworm, gammarus, daphnia, shrimp) to his food, but it has been fine the weeks since then. Package says to provide it freely in addition to regular feed. Other than that nothing has changed.

We have a little quail buddy (4-5 weeks old) and he hangs around us all the time and begs for attention. Wonderful, we love him! BUT yesterday night as we were giving him his evening pets, we noticed he had runny wet poop that got stuck to him bum and his entire backside is constantly wet. We...

I actually had tried candling them before, and I did it again today, and it just doesn't really feel like any thing's there? 40% of the egg is the air sac, slightly at an angle, the rest is dark, but it looks a lot less mass-y than generally a chick would be. Again, I don't see any movement at...

Hello! So for context, we have a wild experiment going on where we're incubating supermarket quail eggs with our dove hen, and on day 14 we put them under a heat lamp so the dove doesn't bother them. We did this in August with just 3 random eggs from our fridge, 2 turned out fertile and 1 of...