What are these quail doing.

[isegal]

nearly 8 week old button quail in their sand bath. What are they doing? Will reply to this with a video shortly

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Do you have the video?

Likely they are just hanging out, planning on taking a dust bath.

 

[007Sean]

nearly 8 week old button quail in their sand bath. What are they doing? Will reply to this with a video shortly

Conspiring against you!

 

[Nabiki]

They're probably scratching in the sand, maybe thinking about a bath, maybe looking for bugs.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Conspiring against you!

OK, Listen up, water stations must never remain clean. It's White and Wilds turn this time, as soon as he changes that water station, go poop in it.

 

[isegal]

OK, Listen up, water stations must never remain clean. It's White and Wilds turn this time, as soon as he changes that water station, go poop in it.



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THIS IS SO TRUE OH MY GOD

"Huddle up, guys. He just used up half of his bank account to get us some food. You know what to do, yes?"
"Yes, sir."
"What do we do?"
"Slowly grab the food and hide it, so he refills it and we have double food, sir."

 

[Susan Skylark]

They have entire huge dust bath but everybody has to bathe in that one spot because obviously it is the best but wait we don’t all fit so somebody moves and everybody else follows cause he’s onto something and this is actually the best spot but we don’t all fit…quail!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

THIS IS SO TRUE OH MY GOD

"Huddle up, guys. He just used up half of his bank account to get us some food. You know what to do, yes?"
"Yes, sir."
"What do we do?"
"Slowly grab the food and hide it, so he refills it and we have double food, sir."

Ooof! They are very good at strewing food. What type of feeders do you use?

Ones with a port can help reduce waste or just take a container and cut holes in it, that helps too.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/no-waste-feeders-for-quail.1533707/