u/Trick-Pop-7712

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Hiya me again

Anyone able to tell if my bird is male or female? I can’t tell or don’t know if I should wait a bit longer !

u/Trick-Pop-7712 — 3 days ago
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California quail help? No

Yes I’m licensed to have him. It’s my first bird and the seller is literally 0 help. Baby came in his eye was injured so I used some salt water to clean it (it helped a ton.)
When I got him his eye was COVERED in blood and he was EXTREMELY lethargic, (couldn’t get up, which is the first pic, second pic is after a good day of working on getting him better. After having to force him to drink and eat liquid food he started to do way better. My friend who owns chickens told me to try washing the eye with a bit of warm salt water and I did, it helped a TON. I got it all cleaned up.
Day two it was back to bloody and red, still bloody for the first 4 days, I thought he had no eye when I first got him so even being able to see the eye I felt better by the end of the week it was just scabs and puss. He is about 2 weeks old now. His eye definitely looks better but it’s still swollen. And it looks like the eyelid is partially missing he can’t fully close his eye. (He has shown no issues though, still peeps happy starting to fly to me, all cuddles from him. (Or… I don’t exactly know the gender, information on Cali quails are hard to come by.)
He also gets along with all my other quail, but when he sees me he RUNS /flys to me (as well as a quail can fly ofc)

Anyways. Is there anything I can do to speed up the swelling? Anything I can do on the eyelid?

u/Trick-Pop-7712 — 18 days ago