I have a 5-week-old Japanese quail rooster whose right eye is irritated and swollen (not sealed shut, but he keeps it shut), whose tissue around the left eye is puffy, and whose sinuses are bulging. What might he be suffering from?
He is in with two other roosters and three hens, but I don't think it's an injury; I read about quail bronchitis, but apparently it only affects bobwhites. I have read that chickens and quail are both subject to many of the same illnesses, and my chickens routinely contract dry fowlpox as adolescents (the symptoms of that and the symptoms of this quail are identical, except that the quail has none of the sores or scabs characteristic of fowlpox), so the quail are certainly exposed to that, but otherwise my chicken flock is disease-free, and I doubt that they have transmitted something to the quail.
Any ideas?
Here is a picture of the right eye (sorry for the lousy pictures; my camera is terrible):
And of the left eye:
He is in with two other roosters and three hens, but I don't think it's an injury; I read about quail bronchitis, but apparently it only affects bobwhites. I have read that chickens and quail are both subject to many of the same illnesses, and my chickens routinely contract dry fowlpox as adolescents (the symptoms of that and the symptoms of this quail are identical, except that the quail has none of the sores or scabs characteristic of fowlpox), so the quail are certainly exposed to that, but otherwise my chicken flock is disease-free, and I doubt that they have transmitted something to the quail.
Any ideas?
Here is a picture of the right eye (sorry for the lousy pictures; my camera is terrible):
And of the left eye: