Choosing toys for parrots

Parrots - birds are pretty smart, active and playful. Usually they are planted by people who can not afford other animals because of their employment. The bird is enough to pour a certain amount of food once a day and pour water into the drinking bowl, and your pet will not remain hungry even during your absence.

But in addition to a spacious cell, a cozy house and a balanced diet, you will also need toys for parrots. Especially they are needed in the event that the pet is kept alone, without a pair. To some extent, your conversations will replace him with communication with relatives, however, the organization of leisure will not be superfluous.

What toys are usually chosen for parrots?

It can be swings, bells, rings, mirrors, etc. Parrots are able to distinguish colors, so any bright thing will be feathered to taste. Almost all such pets, like small children, try any objects "on their own teeth", more precisely - on the beak. Therefore, the main thing in choosing is to pay attention to the quality of the material and paint.

If you choose a swing, see how strong the material is and whether the paint lags behind the tree. Even small particles of it can be toxic. It is important and reliable attachment - when a bird falls, it can not only be frightened, but also be injured.

Very popular are such toys for parrots, of which a mirror is a part. Sometimes stalls and swings with him are sold in pet stores. There are also simply separate mirrors in the plastic frame. Since parrots not only discern colors, but also are able to see their reflection, this very thing will perfectly brighten up the loneliness of the bird during your absence. It should be noted that such things are suitable only for single content. If you plan to do further breeding of birds, then mirror either do not put at all, or remove it when you populate the pair - it often happens that the pet, accustomed to communicate with his reflection, does not pay attention to the appeared female (male).

Toys for wavy parrots can be made independently. The main thing, as already mentioned, pay attention to the toxicity of the material (or rather, the lack of toxic substances in the composition) and its strength. As a home made material, you can take buttons, threads (only strong), tubules for drinking, etc.

Very nice, for example, will look "volancik" of thread. To make it, you will need scissors, about three or four meters of yarn (the one that women take for knitting), a matchbox (or any other of roughly the same size), beads, buttons and bell. The thread is wound on a matchbox (along the length), the resulting hank is intercepted from the top by another thread and cut at the bottom. It turns out a real pompom for children's hats. The upper part is once again wrapped in a thread (fixed), the remainder of which is lifted up (at this end we then hang the toy).

The bottom of the pompon is decorated with colorful buttons or beads. To do this, thread the objects on the free end of the thread, and then make a knot that fixes the decoration. In the central part of the pompon we attach (tie) the bell. The toy is ready. It remains to firmly fix it.

When decorating the cage, try to place toys for parrots so that the bird can move freely between them.