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Date Posted: 11:00:55 04/06/12 Fri
Author: D C T friendly poultry orthopedist
Subject: Re: 2 quail chicks
In reply to: Greg 's message, "2 quail chicks" on 03:29:56 04/06/12 Fri

Baby quails are so tiny and fragile that by the
time that you read this they may already have died.
Actually I have never tried my orthpedic methods on
anything smaller than a baby pheasant and was not able
to do much with them. I did repair some badly crooked
toes on a very tiny peafowl-guinea hybrid and then it
died of something else.
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Some orthopedic problems are due to wrong temperature
or humidity during incubation. This can also cause
the chick be in the wrong position in the eggshell.
Being too dry can cause a problem when the chick tries
to kick its way out of the eggshell thereby displacing
the Achilles tendon usually on one leg but sometimes
both. This can be pushed back into place if you find it
and do it on the first day of life because if the chick
struggles it creates inflammation that blocks the
return of the tendon to its natural groove on the end
of the tibia.

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