Bird foraging toys diy

Newspaper toy

Egg cartons are free! Fill them with crinkle paper, nuts, toys and use as foragers in or on top of the cage with the egg slots poking through.

So easy to make and costs just cents. Made using upcycled parts and can be recycled when you are bored of the colours or too lazy to clean it. Perfect...

DIY Pinecone Foraging Toy

Find out how to make a boredom-busting parrot foraging box filled with tasty treats that will keep your feathered friend busy for hours!

Not sure what kinds of foraging toys your pet birds will like? Here is a sampling of home-made and store-bought toys that my birds love (currently). Ideas for making your own foraging toys and reviews of toys available to buy online.

Pampered Parrot DIY Foraging Box: Take a shallow cardboard box & poke evenly spaced holes on all 4 sides near the top edge. Use the same number of holes on sides opposite one another. Weave newspaper strips through, over and under style, to make a lattice 'cover'. Make the foraging easier or more difficult simply by decreasing or increasing the number of strips woven across the top. Put bird food or treats and toys inside and watch your feathered friend enjoy foraging and chewing on the box!

Foraging is a natural behavior for parrots, so be sure to provide yours with plenty of boredom-busting parrot foraging toys.

In my last post, I talked about making wooden DIY parrot toys. But I only made one for Mika and got tired of drilling holes into the wood scraps. I rationalized that Stewie doesn’t really like wooden toys nearly as much (he has some untouched ones in his cage as we speak). But then I...

Paper roll candies 🍬 filled with shredded paper and treats for parrot foraging

Toiletpaper rolls full of shredded paper. Fun foraging toy

Drink cup holder toy. Made this for my budgies with a drink cup holder with balsa blocks and paper shred inside with a pc of posterboard on the back using buttons and bolted onto their play place. Parakeet, budgie, parrot, bird toy

Foraging

Birds are highly intelligent creatures, and we know that a bird in the wild will spend upwards of 80% of their day actively foraging for food. Learn more!

This is a "Guide" full of ideas, tips and hints for easy home-made foraging, shredder and treat toys that will provide lots of fun, mental stimulation and...

Easy diy egg carton bird toy diy

There are a lot of great bird toys available to buy for our feathered friends. But when your bird goes through toys quickly, your budget can take a beating. Not giving toys is not an option. Birds need the enrichment they get from having a variety of toys to play with. Because of this bird parents get...Read More

Easy foraging toys you can make and provide for your bird's enrichment!