Amber
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Feel free to add your favourite finds for your feathered little friends! I thought we could share the toys and things our parrots love so others can try them out 
it's surprisingly hard to pick out good toys some times, especially if you have a limited selection!
Alex's all time faves are...
1- Rope boings!
I don't know about you guys, buy my jenday LOVES his boing. It's waaay too big for him (Hangs down 3/4 of the cage and takes up so much room!) but at the moment it is his all time favourite! I found the best place to buy these is at your local department store in the pet aisle, I've had no luck getting them in pet stores what so ever! Make sure your boing is cotton if your parrot tends to eat toy parts, it's more digestible then artificial fibres!
2- Cat balls!
The best thing about these? 4 for $2 bucks at the local pet shop. Make sure to get heavy plastic ones and not the flimsy 'basket weave' type ones if you want them to last awhile and not to worry about your bird breaking them and hurting himself. Great foot toys, even if a little big for some conures!
3- Oversized rope ladders/three tiered swings
Another winner for us is the rope/ladder type toys you can get that are just big enough the bird can't actually climb up and down them like a normal ladder. Alex LOVES these, in particular when they have bells and beads and things on the ropes for him to mess with. I like to get them big enough so Alex can comfortably perch on each rung without touching the one above so he can use it as a swing. Conventional little budgie and canary swings are too small for him, and I'm yet to find one in his size (we did have one once given to us and he LOVED it until he wrecked it)
so this is our workaround.
4- Ladders with moving parts
Alex never liked ladders, they didn't move, or make noise, or have bells or do anything really fun. Until I found him one like the above. It has little movable beads that can be slid across the rungs, but it's more likely your conure will just chew the rungs off and use the beads as foor toys, if they are anything like mine! The lesson I learnt here was when going for ladders, ditch the plain dowel or plastic ones for ladders with bells and beads and all that fun, parrot type stuff!
5- "Danglies" or rope and wood chews.
These come in many shapes and sizes, but usually they are made from cotton rope and bits of dyed wood and other chewables and fun bits like bells. Typically the wood is soft enough for parrots to chew. I find these preferable to shredable toys for us, as we have a local bird store that stocks many of these (Made by Birdie Toys i think, if your interested) very cheap, usually for around $5 each (Cheaper then making our own anyway) and they last longer then shreadables. These toys are made to be wrecked, and each has a different challenge to do so. Some, like the top right one will rotate making it hard to keep a grip, others have rope and chain dangle-y bits that make keeping a grip hard! Alex loves these as frustration toys, they are the first thing he will attack and chew when in a 'mood' and they provide a good challenge! Some are combined with vine balls or bamboo for some easy-to-shread parrot fun!
it's surprisingly hard to pick out good toys some times, especially if you have a limited selection!Alex's all time faves are...
1- Rope boings!
I don't know about you guys, buy my jenday LOVES his boing. It's waaay too big for him (Hangs down 3/4 of the cage and takes up so much room!) but at the moment it is his all time favourite! I found the best place to buy these is at your local department store in the pet aisle, I've had no luck getting them in pet stores what so ever! Make sure your boing is cotton if your parrot tends to eat toy parts, it's more digestible then artificial fibres!
2- Cat balls!
The best thing about these? 4 for $2 bucks at the local pet shop. Make sure to get heavy plastic ones and not the flimsy 'basket weave' type ones if you want them to last awhile and not to worry about your bird breaking them and hurting himself. Great foot toys, even if a little big for some conures!
3- Oversized rope ladders/three tiered swings
Another winner for us is the rope/ladder type toys you can get that are just big enough the bird can't actually climb up and down them like a normal ladder. Alex LOVES these, in particular when they have bells and beads and things on the ropes for him to mess with. I like to get them big enough so Alex can comfortably perch on each rung without touching the one above so he can use it as a swing. Conventional little budgie and canary swings are too small for him, and I'm yet to find one in his size (we did have one once given to us and he LOVED it until he wrecked it)
so this is our workaround.
4- Ladders with moving parts
Alex never liked ladders, they didn't move, or make noise, or have bells or do anything really fun. Until I found him one like the above. It has little movable beads that can be slid across the rungs, but it's more likely your conure will just chew the rungs off and use the beads as foor toys, if they are anything like mine! The lesson I learnt here was when going for ladders, ditch the plain dowel or plastic ones for ladders with bells and beads and all that fun, parrot type stuff!
5- "Danglies" or rope and wood chews.
These come in many shapes and sizes, but usually they are made from cotton rope and bits of dyed wood and other chewables and fun bits like bells. Typically the wood is soft enough for parrots to chew. I find these preferable to shredable toys for us, as we have a local bird store that stocks many of these (Made by Birdie Toys i think, if your interested) very cheap, usually for around $5 each (Cheaper then making our own anyway) and they last longer then shreadables. These toys are made to be wrecked, and each has a different challenge to do so. Some, like the top right one will rotate making it hard to keep a grip, others have rope and chain dangle-y bits that make keeping a grip hard! Alex loves these as frustration toys, they are the first thing he will attack and chew when in a 'mood' and they provide a good challenge! Some are combined with vine balls or bamboo for some easy-to-shread parrot fun!
