That’s what I started them off with and they promptly chewed 80% of the front away including a little hole in the corner. So they have used feathers to cover the top of the box ?? and have a small miscellaneous pile of dried chicken bones and small twigs in a corner of nest box. They haul stuff up and down but it never becomes a nest.Most breeders give quakers a wooden nestbox like other parrots if you want them to breed. They readily accept a nestbox with wood shavings.
A few things:That’s what I started them off with and they promptly chewed 80% of the front away including a little hole in the corner. So they have used feathers to cover the top of the box ?? and have a small miscellaneous pile of dried chicken bones and small twigs in a corner of nest box. They haul stuff up and down but it never becomes a nest.