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Our Lab Golden has a very soft mouth though we've never trained him for retrieving. Gotta be instinct with him. Sounds like you've got a sweet girl there. 🥰

The bitter apple spray is (considerably) more expensive, but I've only ever bought one can and never (yet) needed to spray twice.

I don't know about quail, but it works for me on chickens & geese.

If you can set his hospital cage near the main cage, that will keep him happier. He should heal up fine. If you don't have blukote, veterycin is good too & won't make his little head all greasy like neosporin does (greasy won't hurt him; I just think it's kind of ick). Never use salves with pain...

Then you might want to try tractoring Cornish Cross. Search John Suskovich on YouTube.

I use poultry shears on chicken/turkey heads. The little notch would work fine for quail I think, and is also nice for spatchcocking, cutting off lower legs, etc. The shears are not very expensive. But for beheading quail, I've seen videos of people just twisting the heads off. It's a moment's...

Whoa! Thassa lotta itty-bitty yaigs. 😳🙂

My geese are spreading feathers everywhere but the only thing that looks awful is the yard. 😭

You've had a lot going on.

Casport Pony is a project manager and helps a lot of people here. She works hard to see that newcomers who don't understand where to post in order to have the best chance their questions will be seen/answered will get the help they need. If she doesn't know an answer she posts in a forum where...

Did the crop smell bad when you opened it? With all the gas in it, making it look like a balloon, it really seems to me she had to have had some kind of overgrowth of yeast/bacteria in her intestinal system. The food in her crop doesn't look nasty, so maybe somewhere lower down... I am no expert...

sour and/or impacted crop...?

From what I've heard about MyShire, this really surprises me. I think if you contact them, they'll do all they can to make it right.

The 1/4" mesh will sag more than you like, too. Once you add food, water, sand boxes... It's not very strong.

You can take them out. Have a box ready and work methodically. Be careful reseating your incubator's lid. If there's a turning arm, it could break an egg if it hits one. Make sure the lid is on properly. Those plastic ones can trick you. I open my incubator whenever I feel the need and...

Welcome! You can put the two early birds in your brooder to fluff up under heat. It's not so humid there. Is the first hatchling sticky-feeling? Are they different enough that you feel sure you can tell them apart?

Your late quitters may have cooled off too much, causing them to use up energy to stay warm that they couldn't afford to lose. Or they possibly were malpositioned, or... or... or... When you do an eggtopsy it's a good idea to photograph it thoroughly so the experts (among whom I do not number...

I think I recall @Kiki commenting somewhere that quail chicks could get into trouble with the toilet paper tubes.

What about this one?

Yes! Candling is the best part! :love