How and what to use for foraging treats for a GCC

[Sasha2]

My greenie rarely plays with toys except for a ball(foottoys). I want to do the foraging thing but dont really know if she would even touch it.
I give her fruits and veggies in the morning and a pellet seed mix.
So I cant imagine what to use for a forage treat??.She likes junkie cereal but dont think thats a good idea very often.

Also the same with the tiels.They get fresh stuff on a paper plate most days and seed/pellet mix. But they love to tear and shred so imagine they will take to foraging quickly, but what do I use for treats??

 

[JasmineGCC]

I have a forage ball (it has slots in the side) and it hangs in Jasmine's cage. I fill it up with pieces of millet spray and she loves climbing on the top of the ball to pull out bits of millet. If your conure likes fruit or veg then put these around cage - I push a metal skewer through an apple slice or a baby sweetcorn and hang from the cage roof. It makes it more difficult than neatly chopped pieces in her food dish!

I have also filled her dish with shredded paper and hidden sunflower seed/dried fruit/pine nuts so she has to find them.

Hope this helps

 

[Sasha2]

Ive tried a skewer once or twice and she wouldnt touch it.She hates corn too.My tiels love love love corn.Actually the tiels are less picky then the GCC.
She also doesnt like millet much either.She is picky, when I got her at 18mnths old she had been on a seed only diet except for grapes and green beans.
She does eat better now but still goes bonkers for seed mix.

 

[JasmineGCC]

Then try being creative with your seed mix - maybe hide seeds around the cage? Or I've put kitchen roll over her seed pot with holes in it - Jasmines had to work for her seed!

 

[Sasha2]

Thats an idea, thanks..What is a kitchen roll?

 

[JasmineGCC]

Sorry - paper napkin - we call it kitchen roll paper but not sure what other countries call it!! I also have a forage wheel which has sections that jasmine opens by turning a handle. It took her ages to learn what to go but it's now great boredom breaker for her

 

[Sasha2]

Ohh I was thinking maybe your meant paper towels which is what they are called here.LOL

 

[Jtbirds]

I believe even a green cheek could eat a unshelled almond or pistachio or cashew. So maybe try them roasted unsalted as a forgaging treat.