DIY Toiletrol foraging toy 1

          DIY eggbox foraging toy 2

Foraging toys made of an eggbox easy to put millet, seeds or nutriberrie inside. Follow the steps from the photos to make these toys. Encourage your parrot to spend a significant portion of the day foraging, working for food.  Optimally this requires a change in most of the feeding regimen, moving away from free food availability and initiating a foraging system, these toys can help to change.

You need:

♦ An eggbox
♦ A pair of scissors

♦ Small rope
♦ Treats

♦ Beads

DIY toiletroll foraging toy 3

This is a foraging toy with the basis made out of a toiletroll. It includes a lot of materials. All of those materials have their own ability. Which all concludes foraging. Foraging is the instinctive behavior of searching for and obtaining food... All animals must forage for food in order to survive, grow to maturity, reproduce and raise young. In their natural environment birds spend 50 to 70 percent of the daylight hours foraging. That's why foraging is so important for a healthy parrot.

For this toy you need:
♦ Rope

♦ Toiletroll

♦ Bottle caps

♦ Leftovers from an eggbox

♦ Cupcake mould

♦Beads

Goodluck!

DIY swing toy

Here you can find a toy I made for my lovebirds. Its made with different materials. They really enjoy playing on it. Why make toys by yourself? Its fun for you and also very cheap. You can make toys easily from stuff you have at home. For this toy you need:
♦ Rope
♦  Toiletpaper roll
♦  A large ring/circle
♦ Toy balls for cats (cut in halve)
♦ Beads
First you need the circle this is the basis of your toy. You can put ropes around it so it gets fully covered. Then you can tie 6 to 8 ropes seperate from eachother around the circle, you can put beads on it, but also these cat toys, cut in half which I did. When the lower part is fully decorated you can start with the upper side. You can use a thick rope, or just as I have done a toilet paper roll fold up and used for extra strenght. You can tie this up with ropes and cover it with the ropes in a crossed way like I did in the picture.

Good luck!

DIY basket foraging toy 4

Another foraging toy!
This is a bright and colourful toy made with so many materials. All these materials are good to keep your feathered friend busy during the day.  But why is foraging so important? It encourage and challenge your bird by forcing him to look for food like wild birds have to. Most petbirds nowadays get's their food just put right in front of them. By giving your petbird the opportunity to fulfil those empty hours during the day by foraging, your bird won't feel bored. He will have more physical exercise as he uses his beak and feet to remove what is hiding his food.

This foraging toy includes:

♦ A small basket
♦ Cupcake moulds
♦ A package from teabags
♦ Papers fold in different chapes
♦ Leftovers from a toiletpaperroll
♦ A wooden treatball
♦ Pieces of an eggbox
♦ Ropes with beads
♦ Witches ladders
Simply put everything in a good looking order inside  the basket :)

DIY coconuthome

Here you can see a coconuthome I made for my lovebirds. First thing I did was sliding the coconut in the middle in two parts. I did this by first using a saw, and shaping it to make two even sides. Then I took a knife and put it in the shape I made and so I could seperate the two parts easily. Then I had drilled holes in 4 sides of every part of the coconuts and tied it on eachother by a braid. Optional: I used some wood from outside which I had sawn in smaller parts with holes in both sides to make a little stairs. :) 

DIY curtain

In the photos above you can see a birdieproof curtain I made for my three lovebirds. I hanged down this curtain in their playingroom. It simply is a long piece of fabric. In this fabric I made little different shapes, like for example: holes, triangles, squares and so on.. I cut lines in it and also tiny holes to put perches inside so the perche became standing horizontal to make it easy for my lovebirds to sit there. I also tied up some ropes. I cut in the end of the fabric and made knots as you can see on the right photo.
On top I put some hooks and secure them to a line.
And then your cool looking curtain is done :)

DIY foraging toys 5

Here you find three different foraging toys I made.
One of them is the basket filled with papers again, you also find above.
For the swing toy I used:
♦Straws
♦Little cups

♦A papercup
♦Cupcake moulds
♦Little frisbee's
♦Beads
♦Rope
For the other toy I used:
♦Beads
♦A papercup
♦Cupcake moulds
♦Leather string
♦Straws

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