What's your parrots favourite foraging toy?

[LoveMyParrots]

I'm planning on getting Ozzie a foraging toy, but I don't really know which one works the best. Which is your and your parrots favourite foraging toy?

 

[tab_xo]

Fargo LOVES his big foraging wheel, its his favourite But he loves any if they are filled with treats

 

[Featheredsamurai]

Rosie loves her foraging boxes, but they are very easy. I put pellets and bountiful harvest(with nuts picked out) in it. Her only other foraging toy is the wheel of fortune, she LOVES that toy. I want to get her more foraging toys, they are such fantastic enrichment.

Rosie also has a stainless steal skewer, but I don't really think of that as foraging. Plus she barely uses it.

 

[LoveMyParrots]

Thank you both! that was very helpful!

 

[fishstick600]

I have a plastic tube with slits on the side and a removable bottom that I put all sorts of things in. Sydney will hang on it for hours until everything is out of it.

 

[Shayne]

I have a tower with rotating sections so he has to align them to get his treats out. I had to show him how to open it before he managed to do it.

I plan on making him some foraging toys in the future. I'll just have to try and avoid making them too difficult as knowing me I'll get carried away and make something a human child would struggle with.

I want to make a 3d maze on a piece of wood mounted to the side of the cage so that it can be rotated. I'll place perspex over the front so he can see into the maze. And then he has to rotate it to guide his treats through the maze to the exit whole.

 

[Kiwibird]

Kiwi has a lot of foraging toys. I think his favorite is this little lidded dish that dangles from a chain, since it's the easiest for him to get treats from (the lazy thing!). I prefer his pyramid toy that has a few small holes or mini cage toy, because with those he has to figure out how to get his beak/foot in to retrieve the treat (much harder for him). We recently got him this multiple-level toy where he "twists" a level and the treat drops down until it reaches the hole at the bottom he can grab it from. We've been trying to help him on that one, but so far, it's still a bit beyond him (though he goes crazy on it trying).

If this is Ozzie's first foraging toy, I would go with an easy one to get him started on the concept. Move up to more difficult toys as he figures out the easier ones. The lidded dish is pretty simple to start with. I couldn't find the exact one we have, but I did find something similar- 1 Colorful Hanging Foraging Toy Cup Bird Parrot Forager | eBay

 

[OOwl]

My Grey figures out foraging toys quicker than it takes me to load them up. LOL His favorite has to be the acrylic bell where you're supposed to pull a leather cord at the bottom to dispense the treats, only he doesn't use it that way. He flips it upside down and has the treats come out of the loading slots at the top, all while hanging by his feet, upside down at the top of his cage. He likes that tower with the rotating rings, too (that's a close second favorite).

My favorite of his foraging toys is just a plain skewer that I thread with plain paper cups, filled with shredded paper and a nut or seed or piece of fruit, and paper to-go boxes filled with shredded paper and a hidden toy inside. He gets really excited when I'm making his skewer. He'll spend all afternoon destroying it and eating. Never underestimate the diversity of foraging options on a simple, inexpensive skewer.