advise on ill or hurt quail

[Stumars]

Hi

So around a week ago we found our 1.5 year old jap quail laying on her side. Not eating, drinking and mouth breathing.

We have been nursing her daily with food, water (with rescue remedy) and "physio" (helping her use legs again).

She is still not standing up but she is back to her normal self, eating, drinking and being generally annoyed with us.
She did mouth breathe for a while but has stopped it.
She has started scooting herself around in the run on her side now (using her legs finally!)
She is doing big extra smelly poops (i am guessing from not being active) which were green for 1 day but back to normal now.

Other than not standing up she is right as rain. When we try to help her stand unassisted she just falls over sideways.

Any advise please.

 

[Nabiki]

It sounds like she may have hit her head. The green poop is usually a sign that she hasn't been eating, so it's good that she's back to normal on that.

I'm still going to ask my usual questions, though.

What are you feeding her?
What is her home like? (How much space, how tall, how many other quail)
What's in rescue remedy?

In my experience, quail in this situation may recover, but it takes weeks. Sometimes they do not recover even then. It's your decision on how much time you want to spend working with her.

 

[pac]

Geez, there's a lot of this going around. In one form or another.

I didn't realize they made RR for birds. I've only heard of its use in dogs and cats. And being a holistic type thing, either works or it doesn't.

It's for stress @Nabiki .
If it's the same stuff I'm thinking about. You put so many drops in water.

 

[Susan Skylark]

That she is gradually getting better is a good sign, with spinal injury in mammals, if they haven’t recovered in about 3 weeks they aren’t going to. Deep bedding, limited movement, turning from side to side if they aren’t turning themselves, access to feed and water, protect from aggressive birds, basically good nursing care is the key. Anti inflammatory drugs are useful in other species but there are not any good options for quail and I would be very careful even with herbal remedies as it would be easy to over dose such small critters and quail are highly sensitive to many different substances, what might be fine in a dog can kill a bird.

 

[Stumars]

Geez, there's a lot of this going around. In one form or another.

I didn't realize they made RR for birds. I've only heard of its use in dogs and cats. And being a holistic type thing, either works or it doesn't.

It's for stress @Nabiki .
If it's the same stuff I'm thinking about. You put so many drops in water.

Hi, this is what I got if it helps

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003XLF5EE?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

 

[pac]

Hi, this is what I got if it helps

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003XLF5EE?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Didn't know you were in the UK.
We are probably talking about two totally different things. That was not a direct link, so I did not follow it.

One of those times when a general location is helpful

 

[Stumars]

Sorry yeah uk.
It's this
JVP Johnson's poultry tonic

 

[pac]

Probably different than this

https://www.iherb.com/pr/bach-origi...gWt48kzGdT-ZJBrxp0T1iYOqoSNuZ5hYaAtPYEALw_wcB

But I can't find an ingredients list.
At least it's for poultry and it sounds like a good supplement.