No, this was my Macaw. My Ekkie unfortunately wouldn’t be able to break open those nuts. My Ekkie can get sun flower seeds open.
I wouldn’t like me if I were a parrot either. What’s worse is whoever designed these contraptions called toys. Someone is more evil than me. It makes me feel a little better.Wow! I would be a very BAD BIRD if I were your parrot! I would get so frustrated and angry with that toy that I would bite anyone who got near me! Trust me, I'm not an impatient person at all, but if someone made me do something like that to get my favorite food if I was hungry I would never speak to them again!
I have a new found respect for parrots.
The most foraging my bird does is digging in my salad for a sauced up piece of cucumber or bell pepper.
Sounds like my Ekkie! I can’t get him to consistently play with any toy. He’d rather not exercise, and say he did. When I introduced him to “healthy” pellets, and chop he expressed his opinion on the situation. I can affirm he wasn’t a fan of these changes. He liked his almond slivers that weren’t shelled. Because I am an evil parront I started serving them up shelled just cracking them a hair to force him to forge. He’s not very happy with me.My macaw would rather starve than struggle to get a nut out of one of those contraptions. BTDT. He knows that eventually I will relent and hand him a nut just because he is sweet.
My macaw has never been a fan of toys. He has a specific type of wooden block chew toy on a chain that he will eventually destroy (takes a couple of years). I buy multiples when they go on sale. He is stocked up for a good long while. He is a fan of leather strips. He loves to untie knots. I put them all through the chains of his toys and every day they are untied. He is a man of simple taste.
Makes it very economical! I have a fancy super heavy duty nutcracker and it takes all my strength (and a bit of cursing) to crack those darn things! It is only when they have been pre-cracked by me that he will show any interest in them. I guess I have a very delicate bird.
Yes, my macaw can crunch through any nut. Brazil nuts he enjoys just not as much as pecans or almonds. Which is great for me because if I had to crack them open with my hands it would hurt me more than the nut. No my macaw doesn’t respect perches. Here’s his celebratory dance after he ripped off a huge piece of wood from his stand. We’ve had to build one that we can replace the parts of easily. It’s so odd how birds of the same species can vary so muchMy macaw has never been a fan of toys. He has a specific type of wooden block chew toy on a chain that he will eventually destroy (takes a couple of years). I buy multiples when they go on sale. He is stocked up for a good long while. He is a fan of leather strips. He loves to untie knots. I put them all through the chains of his toys and every day they are untied. He is a man of simple taste.
Whoever said a macaw can crunch right through a Brazil nut is nuts!
BTW we still have the original manzanita perches that came with his SS cage. They are 35 years old and still hanging in there. Unlike your macaw, he respects his perches!
My macaw has never been a fan of toys. He has a specific type of wooden block chew toy on a chain that he will eventually destroy (takes a couple of years). I buy multiples when they go on sale. He is stocked up for a good long while. He is a fan of leather strips. He loves to untie knots. I put them all through the chains of his toys and every day they are untied. He is a man of simple taste.
Whoever said a macaw can crunch right through a Brazil nut is nuts!
BTW we still have the original manzanita perches that came with his SS cage. They are 35 years old and still hanging in there. Unlike your macaw, he respects his perches!
I have a few English budgies that are such perch potatoes that they rarely come out of their cage even though I have a open door policy. They aren't scared, just lazy. I have three other English that love to come out and fly around. English budgies are known to be much more laid back than regular budgies but these three don't want to do anything but eat, sleep, preen, chirp and make a mess!
