Hey AV, my crested cock has decided seed as bedding is a great idea, he's picking all the millet out of the seed bowl and dropping it in the nest box

ALSO my method is...at babies aged two weeks in the nestbox goes millet sprays daily...they start to eat it then. At age three weeks...I put a cupful of seed in the nestbox as bedding about every second or third day ...they eat it. When they are ready to fledge they already know what seed is and how to eat it.

 

 

Here is a couple of babies in a nest of 7 eating the millet spray I keep putting in there. There is also seed in as part of the bedding material.