foraging

Hi! I need some foraging tips. I started target training, and some tricks like spin and wave and those are still a work in progress, but he is a really fast learner. He is still very young so I thought I'd teach him some tricks and recall training first, and then move on to foraging. But I...

Solo has a new toy. We put it in his cage yesterday and so far he has fallen in love with it. As it is made of bamboo, I have been able to put in a few little slithers of coconut and almond for him to find. Today he was out flying around and he went back in his cage to play with it. He chatters...

Hello everyone! I have a Jenday conure - or "sun-day", depending on who you ask :) - and I've been banging my head against a wall trying to get her to eat pellets! My recent tactic has been mixing Zupreem pellets & Zupreem "sensible seed" in a forage wheel and leaving Harrison's and Zupreem in...

I have an overweight (~565g, should be ~525g) and bored ~30 year old female YNA. I have read through the stickied Amazon posts, and I can't figure out how to fix boredom without weight gain. The vet says I can no longer cut food and need to get my bird to be active. The active behaviors I want...

My little Meyers will do anything for safflower seeds. She also loves to forage and have found many places in her cage to hide these little seeds to keep her busy. I probably hide about 10 in her cage and she has so much fun finding them, but I don’t want her to gain weight as well. How much...

I've been watching YouTube videos on ways to create foraging toys for small birds. There are a few solid ideas, but I'd love to hear what you do for your Lovies to encourage them to forage. Ideas I have so far: 1. put treats in paper cups and mash them closed. Then place in bowl where food is...

Hi guys! I have been trying to get creative and find new ways to create toys and keep my fids entertained and engaged during their play time. I have been working with them and making foraging toys so that have something to get their little destructive spurts of energy out on something that is...

This is a video on how we feed our flock! I hope it helps somebody. Just a disclaimer that just because this is how we feed our flock doesn't mean that it is what you SHOULD feed them. Ingredients and routine preferences vary widely between parront to parront :) :green2::grey:

Hi all. I have this foraging toy that Rio just ignores. With Santa coming soon I will gladly send this to anyone interested. It is for a med to large bird, but a macaw would probably have trouble getting his beak in the opening. The blocks are 2X2" with the overall length of the acrylic toy is...

Merry Christmas everyone! This morning after breakfast Lucy and I made some toys and here are the fruits of my labor! She is very happily foraging and enjoying some shredables! :white1: Hope all of you have a wonderful day!

Hello everyone, It has been sometime since my last post We celebrated Pickle's 4th birthday, and then his 4th coming-home day this year. But today my family finally agreed that the decision had to be made that he will not make it to 5. Certain things have gotten strikingly worse over just...

Just wanted to let you all know that seagrass mats are THE BOMB in this house now. Mysafebirdstore.com sells them...and they are the nicest people. There's always an extra toy in my box from them and a nice note. I stick sunflower seeds and raisins in them, and fold them in half so that...

So for a while I couldn't get lulu to play with her toys. I though she wasn't happy or that maybe she was to bored so I was constantly buying toys. But now I've found her FAVORITE!! Lulu loves to chew and forage (but she doesn't chew wood). Which is good for me because I can make those toys. I'm...

So I've been doing some work at my grandparents place and they have a young maple tree growing in there yard that they want gone. The branches are still flexible. I was thinking of chopping off a good bit of it and giving it to my birds to chew on. I know for sure that they've never used...

Hi everyone! I have a male new guinea eclectus Parrot who is just on 2 years of age He had over-preening issues starting from when he went through his first moult, during which he pulled out all the new flight feathers on his previously clipped wing. (i wanted him to grow out and be free...

My conure is a good forager, but she learns how to get the food out pretty fast and soon is bored with that toy. I bought a few foraging toys, and now I want to make some. As far as DIY foraging toys, I generally wrap up treats in paper and she shreds it to get the toy. I also give her a cup...