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Hmmm - food for thought!! Can you keep two japanese females together?I find that sand doesn't make as much of a mess as pine shavings. If you use the kind of small animal cage that has a plastic tray bottom, it should be fine. Those cages are built to keep the animal from throwing its bedding out of the cage. Sand on the bottom should be at least 2 inches deep for button quail, add an inch or two for coturnix. If you still find they're making a mess, you can use window screen, netting, coroplast (plastic cardboard) or tarp to make a guard that goes round the bottom of the cage wire. It can be attached to the cage bars using cable ties.