Lifesaver for Fresh Chop Flinging!!

[charmedbyekkie]

Cairo is on a fresh chop diet, which as anyone with fresh chop birdies will know, he flings everywhere! As our current flooring is parquet, I had put up plastic covers on the sides of his cage, which he wasn't happy about, and plastic mats all within a yard of his cage. And I had to scrub down his cage every 2-3 days because the fresh chop all over it meant that it attracted bugs.

We came across Seedmate - an Aussie company that makes acrylic boxes for parrots to eat food out of (for you Aussies out there). My description doesn't do it justice.

We ultimately bought this one for roughly 10 USD: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=570156867748
But I'm sure you guys in the US can find something similar on Amazon (cursory glance found me this https://www.amazon.com/Tidy-Seed-No-Mess-Feeder-Small/dp/B0037UKP9G)

I can put his water and fresh chop (or whole fruits/veggies) inside for him, and he drops everything and flings everything inside the box. It's so easy to take apart and clean. I wipe it down with a paper towel every day and take it apart every other day to rinse down. Now I scrub down only his bottom grating every day or so (depending on whether or not he actually spent time within his cage). And his entire cage, when I washed/scrubbed it clean after a week, there was only one speck of food from when he wiped his beak on it! IT'S A LIFESAVER!!!!

If you do fresh chop and you want to avoid the mess, GET THIS. It's worth every penny for the amount of time you save and the amount of space you spare from food flinging.

I waited a few weeks before sharing because I was sure I'd find some flaw or pain point. But none so far! Some photos of it in action: https://www.instagram.com/p/BpQkLOCB_UU/

Hardly anybody where I live feeds fresh chop, so I just had to rave to you guys how amazing this is!

 

[chris-md]

Yeah the seed ate is common among our Aussie brethren. I’m certain some here have it. You go on an eclectus site - something dominated by aussies - and the vast majority would have it.

Unfortunately there’s not much of an analog available to us in the US. Though I understand these can be rather hard to clean so maybe not something I’d want with fresh chop.

 

[charmedbyekkie]

Yeah the seed ate is common among our Aussie brethren. I’m certain some here have it. You go on an eclectus site - something dominated by aussies - and the vast majority would have it.

Unfortunately there’s not much of an analog available to us in the US. Though I understand these can be rather hard to clean so maybe not something I’d want with fresh chop.

Had no clue it was popular in Australia! It's insanely expensive there!!

The one I got completely disassembles, so it's unbelievably easy (I was anticipating it to be a complete pain).

If you don't mind the wait and having to Google translate (I had to create a parrot-specific dictionary for myself since my Chinese is quite bad), TaoBao is an option!

 

[ChristaNL]

You can alwasy use a "large bird bath" -> the one available on most online parrotshops.

It opens (oke: unscrews, we *are* talking made for semi-large parrots here) like a cat litterbox/ tansportbox- so you can even plunk it in a diswasher.
Downside: mine is blue plastic (could not find clear ones) so maybe that would be an issue for some parrots.

(was bought as a bath, but obviously waaay to small even for the large greys always photoshopped in one)


I use mine for fouraging-fun/ well I did before a certain demolition-macaw moved in and found out she was strong enough to fling it off the cage for them ...
(now I just put it on the bottom inside the cage instead of hanging on)