Quail eye injury
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- Jaye
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Quail eye injury
So here is Lily's post-injury eye. Looking for insights - "insights" ... lol, just realized that was a pun.
Bad eye: Good eye:
Bad eye: Good eye:
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Re: Quail eye injury
My quail have frequently gotten after one another and do it to each other, stupid birds.
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- Jaye
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Re: Quail eye injury
LOL @kenya ... Yes, you're right - sometimes they can be rather mean. And daft. We have one bully that is about to have a couple of days of time-out, right after we get patient number two back with the flock and the infirmary crate is freed up again. That will happen after work today: we inspected patient number two this morning and she looks all healed up and ready to go back. We gave her one last dose of wound spray just for good measure, but I don't think it was really necessary.
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Re: Quail eye injury
I had a covey of bob whites in my outside ring neck pheasant pen once with a few male pheasants. Had to pull them out & put in own pen cause the kept circling & harassing the pheasants to exhaustion then jumped on um . 8/30/6 pen lots a room & natural hiding places too . Cheeky little buggers . Luck PS on any eye issues I use luke warm tea bags held & soaked over eye .
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Re: Quail eye injury
I had a covey of bob whites in my outside ring neck pheasant pen once with a few male pheasants. Had to pull them out & put in own pen cause they kept circling & harassing the pheasants to exhaustion then jumped on um . 8/30/6 pen lots a room & natural hiding places too . Cheeky little buggers . Luck PS on any eye issues I use luke warm tea bags held & soaked over eye .
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Re: Quail eye injury
Looks like you did a nice clean job Jaye, like I said before I think you should market yourself as "St Jaye Ambulance" services
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Re: Quail eye injury
Thanks for the compliment, OC.Ontario Chick wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:33 amLooks like you did a nice clean job Jaye, like I said before I think you should market yourself as "St Jaye Ambulance" services
There's still that big lump on the bottom lid, but from I think (and I'm hoping I'm right) it's just scar tissue that's grown over the original injury site, not any kind of infection any more.
Yes, I've heard that bobwhites can be quite aggressive. Coturnix quail tend to be a bit less so. Most of mine "play well with others", but I do have one Golden Italian girl who is just really cranky all the time. I'm pretty sure she's the root cause of most of the quail injuries I'v had to deal with.ross wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 10:30 amI had a covey of bob whites in my outside ring neck pheasant pen once with a few male pheasants. Had to pull them out & put in own pen cause they kept circling & harassing the pheasants to exhaustion then jumped on um . 8/30/6 pen lots a room & natural hiding places too . Cheeky little buggers . Luck PS on any eye issues I use luke warm tea bags held & soaked over eye .
Thanks to the tip/reminder about warm tea bags, Ross. I have used chamomile tea bags in the past, but this time I just soaked a cotton ball with warm saline water and applied that to her eye, followed by antibiotic eye drops.
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Re: Quail eye injury
Jaye her eye looks exactly like my old girl Miss Kitty. She's had her eyes picked at from an early age and she's having vision issues now. I will post a pic when I have time but my guess would be scar tissue as well.
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Re: Quail eye injury
I agree, it just looks like scar tissue. It looks to me like the injury or the infection destroyed part of her lower outer eyelid, and the "lump" is the healing edge. As long as her inner eyelid isn't damaged, she'll be fine, and with time, you should barely notice it!
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