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I’ve been meaning to watch this one lol, just hadn’t had the chance yet. Thank you. I probably misindentified the organ or mass. Perhaps it is the liver, maybe, if the smaller lobe was not covered in nodules and I thought it was the whole thing. It wasn’t very large and was a little friable...

The liver seemed normal, compared to the few I’ve seen in the past, the lungs were my best guess for what those symmetrical organs with the nodules were. I was in a rush and had to get going to an appointment so I didn’t take them out, I only had a pair of scissors, a puppy pad, and gloves. I...

Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised. That could definitely explain the abdominal debris and fluid. The nodules/lesions on the lungs are still super weird, I haven’t seen anything like it. The hen’s only symptoms was respiratory distress, and death within 48hrs. My initial thought on that was maybe...

This bird died at my friends house while I was in my way over to dispatch it. Upon inspection, the lungs (?) and the fat around the gizzard had these nodules. I was in a hurry and didn’t look too much further, but she also had a large volume of green fluid and a little bit of smelly/eggy debris...

Well it has been a little while, and I let them incubate another clutch over the last couple of weeks. Two eggs laid one day apart, and she started sitting the day the second was laid. One egg quit in the first couple days, just had a blood ring, and the other quit after getting into hatch...

Thank you, that could be. I will clean and disinfect the incubator, for sure. I do disinfect the nest bowl between clutches so idk how they die in shell in there, but I’m going to use a different nesting material to see if that makes a difference for the next clutch I let them sit on.

I’ve been struggling with poor hatchability with my two pair of Diamond doves. Usually the eggs die in the last two days of incubation. I break out all dead eggs to check what stage they are. I tossed the latest two eggs right into the incubator after they were laid, to see if we’re looking at...

Ok thanks, I’ll make sure her bedding is extra dry and clean. She can get to her food and water and walks a bit, but doesn’t put a lot of pressure on that foot. I haven’t separated her from her three hatchmates so far, they aren’t bothering with it and she gets pretty stressed when she’s...

Thank you, I’ll be keeping up with treatment and hope she improves

Good afternoon everyone. I banded one of my babies two days ago, and the next monring she had developed a very swollen foot, though the band was still loose and moved freely. I don't know if she injured that foot on the band somehow, or what happened, but I removed it for now and started...

Warning, graphic images below text. Context; I put 10 fertile button quail eggs from my birds in the incubator. Lost power early on for 24hrs and eggs got down to 70° F by the time power came back. That was day 4 or 5. By lockdown, I had weeded out several that had quit early. I didn’t open...

She’s great! I definitely think SLS on mine! Does yours have a pea or rose comb? Our girl has a straight comb

Thanks! I’m pretty sure you’re right about the white ones. I couldn’t tell on the silver if they were silver or cinnamon. I hope for silver! Time shall tell I suppose, once they get their adult plumage in!

These guys hatched 5/19. I ordered 20 eggs. 10 hatched and 3 were DIS at breakout. Any thoughts on colors?