Friday, February 05, 2010

Bird Toys Pep Up The Bird

One similarity between birds in cages and tiny Tots is that both groups are pets of those who care for them. Another similarity is that both need toys as much as they need food and drink. Bird toys should not be so wide a range as baby toys, but the bird toys are beautiful, and replace a large part of some natural toys, bird cage miss in their existence. 

Colorful swings, ladders, pearl necklaces, bells, ropes, and Merry-go-round by hanging is the common bird toys that birds have been seen to react to instinctively. In each of these categories, there will be toys of different colors and sizes, made of different materials. Bird rises can rope ladder, bamboo rising, or climbing nets, and could rest on the cage floor, or may be hanging from above.


Swings are also popular bird toys, because many birds, especially those in the parrot family like macaws, like to swing. Some of the swings will have a hardwood perch as a swing seat, with chewable toys dangling from the swing chains. Swings can be round or triangular rope rings. How swing seat is a wooden perch, some birds even sleep on it. Multicolored swings made of plastic disks and beads make excellent toys that have a high degree of aesthetics.


Many bird toys like ropes and bells are designed to be chewed, and among these chewable toys are some very innovative toys made of cuttlebone. Cuttlebone, which is the bones of squid, is rich in calcium and is an essential nutritional supplement for birds. Some toy manufacturers make perches and bells out of cuttlebone so that when the birds to chew on, they can actually get all the nutrition they require.


Foraging bird toys are also a welcome addition to any bird cage. With foraging toys, birds are trained to search for their food, which is concealed in rings or columns or trays for a multi-faceted toy. Foraging toys may be in the form of a carousel, or concatenated containers or sliding rings or in a creative way that producers can think of. Disposable foraging toys can also be done at home if the bird owner's time and creativity to think of a treasure hunt ideas for the bird using leftover paper cups, containers, fruit scabs, twigs, paper bits, etc.


And when it comes to the question of doing things themselves, it is not just foraging toys that can be done at home, but many other kinds of birds and toys. Those who have access to a wide variety of magazines as palm leaves to make a series of disposable tissue toys such as whistles, diamonds, rings, hoses, etc. with it. Broader types of leaves and twigs stuck together for both, knitted together with paddles or rises, will also make excellent bird toys.


Homemade or factory-made, bird toys are a must for bird cages, both from the perspective of beautification and utility perspective.

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