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If you aren´t sure how to provide a foraging activity for you bird, have a read of this pdf. You may be surprised at just how easy it is and you don´t have to always spend a fortune on expensive toys.
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/23...nloads/1coj2pi60_817276.pdf?ver=1556316845408
I like to make my own toys with beads and bells, but also make foraging activities from boxes that I save. More recently were easter egg boxes, for my little birds they were great because they have a little window to jump in and out of. Even choping up cardboard into squares and threading them on a rope with beads in between.
Another cheap foraging activity I like to do (for little birds), which cost me very little, is to fill an Ikea picnic plate with marbles (not jam packed), and sprinkle some seeds, millet or dehydrated fruit all over, shake the plate so the treats fall in the gaps. I have a few marbles that are a little larger too to mix it up. (I checked each marble when I bought them and tossed any chipped ones into the recycling box).
Or take a feeder dish, fill it with small toys, kitty balls, beads, shredded paper, small wooden blocks, and shake in a few treats to find.
Cut a kitchen roll tube in half and stuff it, with shredded paper and millet. I use this one when I´m expecting a business call during the day and I need 20 minutes of almost silence.
As I type, I can smell peppers. Lapis is using her hanging foraging ball filled with big chunks of veg. She is even biting off chunks and feeding them to Nube.
Foraging will look different for big birds and little birds, but the concept will be the same.
Basically a puzzle, and the prize is food. The puzzle can be super easy, like my dish of marbles, or veggie skewers or harder like the egg carton idea in the pdf, and the reward can be anything from a piece of dehydrated fruit or an almond, right down to pellets. You can even use beads or bells as treats.
All foraging ideas an be tweaked, for eg, instead of using the artichoke, you could use broccoli. And maybe, your bird is little, then you can use just one floret and shove in a sunflower seed and a few bits of dehydrated fruit or a couple of pellets.
Even just hiding foods around the cage, in toys etc is foraging and will enrich the life of your bird.
Store bought toys are ideal if you rush off to work in a morning, but you could also prepare your DIY activity the night before.
Here are some threads with DIY toys I have created (with instructions);
What sort of activities do you create for your bird?
Here´s the little ones enjoying the ball, sorry for the bad angle and lighting, I didn´t want to get up and disturb them...
https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/23...nloads/1coj2pi60_817276.pdf?ver=1556316845408
I like to make my own toys with beads and bells, but also make foraging activities from boxes that I save. More recently were easter egg boxes, for my little birds they were great because they have a little window to jump in and out of. Even choping up cardboard into squares and threading them on a rope with beads in between.
Another cheap foraging activity I like to do (for little birds), which cost me very little, is to fill an Ikea picnic plate with marbles (not jam packed), and sprinkle some seeds, millet or dehydrated fruit all over, shake the plate so the treats fall in the gaps. I have a few marbles that are a little larger too to mix it up. (I checked each marble when I bought them and tossed any chipped ones into the recycling box).
Or take a feeder dish, fill it with small toys, kitty balls, beads, shredded paper, small wooden blocks, and shake in a few treats to find.
Cut a kitchen roll tube in half and stuff it, with shredded paper and millet. I use this one when I´m expecting a business call during the day and I need 20 minutes of almost silence.
As I type, I can smell peppers. Lapis is using her hanging foraging ball filled with big chunks of veg. She is even biting off chunks and feeding them to Nube.
Foraging will look different for big birds and little birds, but the concept will be the same.
Basically a puzzle, and the prize is food. The puzzle can be super easy, like my dish of marbles, or veggie skewers or harder like the egg carton idea in the pdf, and the reward can be anything from a piece of dehydrated fruit or an almond, right down to pellets. You can even use beads or bells as treats.
All foraging ideas an be tweaked, for eg, instead of using the artichoke, you could use broccoli. And maybe, your bird is little, then you can use just one floret and shove in a sunflower seed and a few bits of dehydrated fruit or a couple of pellets.
Even just hiding foods around the cage, in toys etc is foraging and will enrich the life of your bird.
Store bought toys are ideal if you rush off to work in a morning, but you could also prepare your DIY activity the night before.
Here are some threads with DIY toys I have created (with instructions);
My DIY upcycle-then-recycle foraging toy
So easy to make and costs just cents. Made using upcycled parts and can be recycled when you are bored of the colours or too lazy to clean it. Perfect for little birds, not suitable for larger birds. If you notice the plastic being chewed, dispose of the toy. Once the treats have been taken...
forums.avianavenue.com
DIY flower shredder
No money? No toys available? Maybe you have these things and can make this 5 minute 5-min-flower-shredder.. I live where bird toys are sparse so I'm always looking for DIY toys and activity ideas so I want to share this for anyone in a country with no toys available or maybe you are broke the...
forums.avianavenue.com
DIY: Another super cheap, super easy DIY ¨flower¨ toy
OK so similar to last time, but this time it is a hanging toy (last time was wall mounted. Here´s the link if anyone missed it: DIY flower shredder). This is for little beaks, maybe you could give it to a larger bird (without the clip) as a foot toy. No money? No toys available? Maybe you have...
forums.avianavenue.com
What sort of activities do you create for your bird?
Here´s the little ones enjoying the ball, sorry for the bad angle and lighting, I didn´t want to get up and disturb them...