Parrot enrichment

Unwaxed Dixie cups make good bird foraging toys

Enhance your parrot's well-being with these enrichment activities. Discover the benefits of mental stimulation, physical exercise, social interaction, and natural behaviours. Keep your feathered friend happy and healthy! For more details, visit www.blog.parrotessentials.co.uk

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Parrot foraging enrichment concept: Like Lickimat is silicone licking mat for dogs, this concept is “Pickimat” for parrots. Parrots could destroy and ingest pieces of silicone, but what if we made the mat from bird safe stainless steel? Bird would have to pick (or lick!) the edible substance (peanut or sunflower seed butter, mashed fruits & veggies etc.) off the mats tiny grooves. The mat would be easy to clean in dishwasher, and easy to fill with a spatula.

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

Pineapple top skewered and filled with treats-great for parrots or small primates

Concept: Y-shaped kerplunk foraging enrichment for animals. Animals must move between three points to remove the sticks and to get all the dropping food. Tube can split to more 'branches' than two.

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

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 enrichment for animals, for example parrots and primates. - Make holes in fruit or vegetables. - Fill holes with treats or food that wont go soggy (nuts etc., but not pellets). - Serve in large bowl with water. Veggies will float and bounce in water making it hard to reach the treats.

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Today we're sharing some household items that you can use to make economical toys for your parrots. A quick word of caution before we dive in. Please remember that not every toy (or toy part) is safe for every parrot. Make sure you are watchful of how your bird interacts with new items you introduce, and that you fe

That't right, I said it. I took Ellies toys away. And this beautiful lady is to blame.