Toys for an African Parrot

RE: Toys for an African Parrot Post by tlcdsfit (32) | (08/10/2006) Contact we buy toys at yard sales and wash them very good.when dry and clean let the baby have it's toys.also you can buy untraeted wood and dirll a cuople of holes at diffrent sizes and shapes put it's favorete treats in the holes and let it have it. RE: Toys for an African Parrot Post by NellieMary (30) | (08/09/2006) Profile | Contact What a lot of great ideas! I appreciate your taking the time to give such wonderful advice for parrots. I can't wait to try some of them. Thanks again! I loved the picture! RE: Toys for an African Parrot Post By Martha (Guest Post) (08/09/2006) one last thing...join your local bird club if you haven't already. A great resource! Here is a picture of Coco being introduced to our daughter when she was born. RE: Toys for an African Parrot Post By Martha (Guest Post) (08/09/2006) Hi! I know it can be expensive with supplying parrot toys but parrots are meant to destroy their toys. We adopted a grey that had to learn to chew. Parrot that don't chew usually have something mentally or physically wrong. We have had two greys so far and some ideas I use are paper towel rolls, toilet rolls (not perfumed, stained, wet or that have too much glue) readers digest magazine rolled up and put between cage bars. Cardboard egg cartons with treats inside. One thing I recently started doing is using the cardboard drink trays from fast food restaurants. Popsicles sticks for crafts are good too. Make toys like sticking the sticks through paper rolls. Most bird toys store sell blocks etc for making your own toys or refreshing the old toys where the blocks etc are chewed off. Baby toys you get from friends or thrift stores, like keyrings, plastic chains, activity centers etc are popular. of course you need to use common sense and also see what your bird likes and what your bird vet says. Our bird had a decade of junk food before coming to us and his liver is shot so no nuts for him. There are great online parrot stores like birdyboredumbusters, canadian bird toys or westcoast birds (you can tell I am in Canada :) ). Search online for ideas and games to keep your bird interested. Vary the toys so they don't get bored. My bird doesn't like acrylic toys so you have to try different things. One thing I saw at a friends for an amazon...a roll of toilet paper. Lots of parrots like kids shows 2-6 yr old range. RE: Toys for an African Parrot Post By aardvark (Guest Post) (08/09/2006) http://www.birdsnways.com/birds/ideas.htm THIS WAS JUST THE 1ST ONE I FOUND WHEN i GOOGLED "HOMEMADE PARROT TOYS" -- THERE ARE MANY MORE...