A sad day

[Dean&Laura]

Today we lost one of our girls, Honey.

She was around 10 months old and was our head girl of our bevy.

Unfortunately, this morning she suffered an accident which left her with a complicated fracture of the leg.

Our vet stated that the likelihood of the fracture healing or the wound healing was extremely unlikely and that she was suffering.

So Dean made the heartbreaking decision to have her euthanised.

She passed away peacefully at 10 am this morning.

We've decided to keep her last eggs and try and preserve them so we have something to remember her by, if anyone knows how to do this, I would really appreciate any advice as we'd like to keep some part of her after losing her so early in her life.

Thank you x

 

[Marigold]

Hi Dean and Laura, I'm so sorry to hear this news. I know how much all your quails mean to you, and how carefully you look after them. I don't know how to preserve eggs, I presume its by blowing them, but maybe someone else will be able to advise on how to do this. How many have you got now?
Sad though it was, I'm sure Dean made the right decision. It's very difficult to 'repair' either tiny animals like CPQs, or very large animals like horses, when a leg fracture happens, and you wouldn't have wanted her to continue in pain.

 

[Dean&Laura]

We've found that if we prick the bottom and top of her eggs we can blow the yolk out and then later fill and varnish them. We have about 5 successful ones we did.

It was a bad fracture and she was in quite a bit of pain, fortunately, she was not alone when she passed away. Dean was sat with her.

It just seems like such a waste of a life. She was always so healthy. She had weak legs and feet anyway, her toes were gnarled because of a abnormality that was not fixed as a chick, but she was always so healthy.

We will miss her so much. She was such a little fluff ball.

 

[chrismahon]

Sorry to hear that Dean&Laura. We hatched the eggs we had in stock when we lost one unexpectedly. Our replacement hen became a cockerel -just as she always wanted to be! You have to have known her and see him to believe that though.