To make it easy to view the original Training Your Parrot to Play With Cheap Toys YouTube video, we've added it here. Training Your Parrot to Play With Cheap Toys: Bottle Caps:
Since our parrots usually prefer to play with the containers rather than the contents, we produced yet another Training Your Parrot to Play With Cheap Toys YouTube video, featuring our Timneh African grey parrot Tillie: Training Your Parrot to Play With Cheap Toys: Cardboard Boxes. Our smaller parrots especially love chewing up cereal boxes and tissue boxes, although any cardboard container is popular with our flock, including toilet paper rolls. Just be sure they are not covered in glue. Inspect the material before giving it to your parrots, and if in doubt just toss it out! Something to watch out for, however, is nesting behavior. You want to be sure your parrots are playing with the boxes, and not trying to build a nest. For more about the topic of nest building, see our blog post about our female Blue and Gold macaw, Miss Bubba Boy: Our Flock: Bubba's Brood.
We're always anxious to hear about any other ideas for great, cheap, and readily available parrot toys. Got an idea? Please share it with us.
2 comments:
Dory, my timneh AG, likes bottle caps, clothes pins, pieces of Tinker toy sets, empty thread spools - little things he can hold.
I shop for (appropriate) toys at thrift shops. Pet shop prices for bird toys are outrageous.
Dory's favorite toy is his castle (photo at - http://www.peanut.org/mike/text/dory.htm) and other such play houses.
Michael (msegers on Twitter)
My cockatoo's favorite toy is a cardboard box. I often stuff it with some shredded paper and a treat. It's hours of entertainment for both her and me.
Post a Comment